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Please Peer Review Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

I have recently nominated Institute of Chartered Accountants of India for peer review. I humbly request that someone peer reviews the article.

What is an "ACCL" medal (British India)?

On this page/section, Maratha#Military_service, there are several medal names which appear to have no article. Are any of these redirectable to other existing articles? I'm particularly unclear as to what an "ACCL" is. MatthewVanitas (talk) 19:57, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

No mention of it on Maratha page now, so assume its resolved. It should read, AC (Cl I) or II or III as relevant (AC=Ashoka Chakra) which became Ashoka Chakra, Kirti Chakra and Shaurya Chakra respectively. AshLin (talk) 17:49, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Lanco infratech

A couple of editors who look like company employees (they don't edit other stuff) keep reverting my edits on the Lanco Infratech article which I created some time back. Their edits read like a company brochure and has no citations. I have added a discussion page to discuss issues. They visit the article much more frequently than I do; I don't want an edit war. Help requested. mukerjee (talk) 12:41, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Came in and reverted back to your NPOV version. Article seems to be suffering clear attempts to remove mention of controversies associated with the company (backed up by reliable news refs), and to add blatant POV terms like "impressive" to praise the company. Accompanied, of course, by Edit Summaries from the advert editors accusing Mukerjee of "POV" and personal motives, and threatening to tell an administrator. I'd recommend at least a few other editors add this page to their watchlists so we can keep an eye out for future attempts to take the warts off and make the page a promo brochure. MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:42, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

New India related project

I have put in a proposal to setup a new project to the WikiProject Council to tackle some issues related to nomenclature that I'm seeing all over Misplaced Pages - from the 2011 Cricket World Cup article to Ganga and many others. Please participate in the discussion at the project proposal council board to determine the viability of such a project. Zuggernaut (talk) 14:50, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Citation templates now support more identifiers

Recent changes were made to citations templates (such as {{citation}}, {{cite journal}}, {{cite web}}...). In addition to what was previously supported (bibcode, doi, jstor, isbn, ...), templates now support arXiv, ASIN, JFM, LCCN, MR, OL, OSTI, RFC, SSRN and Zbl. Before, you needed to place |id={{arxiv|0123.4567}} (or worse |url=http://arxiv.org/abs/0123.4567), now you can simply use |arxiv=0123.4567, likewise for |id={{JSTOR|0123456789}} and |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/0123456789 → |jstor=0123456789.

The full list of supported identifiers is given here (with dummy values):

• John Smith (2000). "How to Put Things into Other Things". Journal of Foobar. 1 (2): 3–4. arXiv:0123456789. ASIN 0123456789. Bibcode:0123456789. doi:0123456789. ISBN 0123456789. ISSN 0123456789. JFM 0123456789. JSTOR 0123456789. LCCN 0123456789. MR 0123456789. OCLC 0123456789. OL 0123456789. OSTI 0123456789. PMC 0123456789. PMID 0123456789. RFC 0123456789. SSRN 0123456789. Zbl 0123456789. |id=____. {{cite journal}}: Check |arxiv= value (help); Check |asin= value (help); Check |bibcode= length (help); Check |doi= value (help); Check |issn= value (help); Check |jfm= value (help); Check |mr= value (help); Check |ol= value (help); Check |osti= value (help); Check |pmc= value (help); Check |pmid= value (help); Check |rfc= value (help); Check |ssrn= value (help); Check |zbl= value (help)

Obviously not all citations needs all parameters, but this streamlines the most popular ones and gives both better metadata and better appearances when printed. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:58, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Next Pune meetup - 12 March 2011 at SICSR

Meetup - 26
विकिपीडिया विकिभेट,
पुणे-24:उद्घोषित
time tbd
Saturday, 11 January 2020 (tbf)

AshLin (talk) 04:38, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Konkani Language articles need attention

three articles Konkani Phonology, Canara Konkani and Konkani Script need contributions.Imperium 06:08, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Request

• I request editors to have a look at this discussion, and achieve a consensus. I am going on a Wikibreak for some time. Hope to see that issue resolved once I come back! Yes Michael? • 14:33, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of S. R. Bhosle Krida Sankul Stadium

The article S. R. Bhosle Krida Sankul Stadium has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

I dont find any information on this stadium in Google News or Google Book Search, in fact I have never heard of it before

While all contributions to Misplaced Pages are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Around The Globe 07:32, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

FLC nom - List of international cricket centuries at Brabourne Stadium

List of international cricket centuries at Brabourne Stadium has been nominated for WP:Featured List status - the flc is ongoing here - . Around The Globe 07:38, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Devasahayam Pillai

just like to apprise folks of the heavily POV ridden Devasahayam Pillai, edited by editor(s) with WP:COI . thanks Arjun 16:34, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Choosing topics for Misplaced Pages for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities

Hello friends,

Article selection for Misplaced Pages for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version has begun. I have started selecting articles. I chose Geography as a relatively uncontroversial topic to begin with. The first items added were the states & union territories - uncontroversial, just added them all. The next I have selected are Indian cities.

User:AshLin/Work_list

Any that you feel should be removed/added? Your thoughts on this issue? AshLin (talk) 18:38, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

As I've said above, we need to put this project on hold until we add an additional step to the 8 steps you list above. The additional step I am talking about should address the problem of NPOV in India articles due to a systemic bias, specifically British bias. We should treat this only next to the "censorship" step in terms of importance and priority. There are four sources of bias that I am aware of:

1. The racist bias in 18th, 19th and early-mid 20th century British literature. Some of this can easily and has in the past crept in to Misplaced Pages articles.
2. The odd British nationalist editor who wants to glorify the British Empire will edit articles from a viewpoint that is alien to India school children.
3. The Brown Sahib Indian editor.
4. University professors who have a strong anti-India POV and who can indulge in WP:OR (which is their day job).

Disclaimer: None of this is directed at any individual editor in particular but these types of editors do exist on Misplaced Pages but the great majority are most likely introducing bias unintentionally.

If you want to proceed with the project, I would recommend dropping all articles that deal with Indo-British history until the above issues are addressed.

It is not the case that there is no solution to this problem but it might take a while before we clean up the articles. Some possible solutions that come to my mind:

1. Develop a tool that detects article references from years XXXX to XXXX in articles that fall under relevant projects.
2. Develop a tool that searches articles under relevant projects for key offensive words.
3. This may be controversial, but it might be worth looking at the contributors to an article to check for known editors who have a known POV issue.
4. Another topic that should be dropped from the offline version is any article that falls under the Indian caste-system. Many of these articles are horrible and need substantial clean up.

Zuggernaut (talk) 06:36, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Naxal articles

Please feel free to chip in to discussions Talk:Maoist_Communist_Center#Fork and Talk:Communist_Party_of_India_(Marxist–Leninist)_People's_War#Referencing. I'm in dialogue that is so far proving futile with another editor, which refuses to discard a source that confuses India and Nepal as well as making factually incorrect claim on whether MCC and MCCI are two separate entities. --Soman (talk) 21:02, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Proposed rename of article entitled "Nirmala Srivastava" to "Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi"

Hi all, do you think that the above should be done? I know there is a policy of not using honorifics on Misplaced Pages but I think this person should come as an exception since she is more widely known by the honorific title. For example I have compiled this list of academic sources which are used in the article:

Judith Coney, Sahaja Yoga: Socializing Processes in a South Asian New Religious Movement (1999) – Sri Mataji Nirmala Devi, shortened to Sri Mataji (used most often). Only one reference to Nirmala Srivastava.

Hinduism Today - Mataji Nirmala Devi

Kakar, Sudhir (1984) Shamans, Mystics and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions - Mata Nirmala Devi

Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, Their Jihads, and Osama Bin Laden 2005 by Timothy R. Furnish & Michael Rubin - Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Inform brochure - Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Srivastava

http://www.irelandyoga.org - Shri Mataji

Thorax International Journal of Respiratory Medicine - HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Barrett, David V. The New Believers - Shri Mataji

I'm sure as time goes on she will be even less known by the name she was born with and more widely known by her spiritual name considering the worldwide following she has. Freelion (talk) 02:33, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Related discussion

Editors here will be interested in an ongoing discussion on honorifics and titles at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(Indic) LeadSongDog come howl! 18:33, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Very confusing article at Rajbanshi

Rajbanshi appears to be about some community associated with Koch and Assam, but I'm having real trouble understanding the article, and the footnotes are very oddly formatted. I've at least added some wikilinks to dump the {deadend} tag, but if anyone is interested in this topic it could use a whack. MatthewVanitas (talk) 18:36, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

I think the strange footnotes are because the article and footnotes were duplicated from Koch dynasty. I haven't actually read the article (and don't plan to); it may be a merge candidate. Shreevatsa (talk) 06:41, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Delhi Akshardham Fire in 2009

There is a ongoing discussion on inclusion of this information at Talk:Akshardham (Delhi). Around The Globe 07:50, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Concerns about Lodhi Rajputs (and other self-serving tribe/caste articles)

I noted that Lodhi Rajputs set off my internal alarms, with its emphasis on Kshatriya status, and explanation that some god told them to take up farming (a classic "methinks though dost protest too much" in such articles." Sure enough, I looked it up on gBooks, and already found several references basically saying "they're poor farmers who started claiming affiliatins with Rajputs and Kshatriya in the early 1900s". Example here. Of all Wiki bad habits, re-writing history to make yourself look good is high on my list of annoyances, so I'm looking to tackle this one, as I did with Kunbi previously. Kunbi still gets frequent IPs coming in to remove the (clearly footnoted) term "Sudra" and insert "Kshatriya".

Just wanted to bring this common problem to editors' attention. If anyone else has seen similar problems but doesn't feel comfortable correcting them, let me know and I'll see what I can do. I have no dog in these fights, and wouldn't know a Lodhi from a Kunbi if I ran into him on the street, but I'm just annoyed at people self-praising their community by telling stories completely against academic consensus. MatthewVanitas (talk) 14:38, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

I don't see the problem with the stories (besides terrible writing). The myths and legends that are current in a caste and what a caste believes about itself are interesting and anthropologically important. Obviously, that a god told them to take up farming is a legend that cannot be mistaken for a statement of fact, so your "rewriting history" comment doesn't make sense to me. (If it's written as history instead of as legend, anyone can fix it easily.) BTW, there's a source confirming the existence of this particular legend, here. Shreevatsa (talk) 14:54, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

I'm totally fine with "here's a legend they believe ". Your ref is a great one, glad you found and added. My concern is that the lede of the article claimed Rajput/Kshatriya history, and an unfootnoted claimed etymology, while the same book you footnoted basically says "they started claiming higher caste status a few generations ago." The legend itself is fine, though similar articles have a tendency to perform WP:OR and start citing directly from the Puranas or the Vedas to say "the group mentioned here eventually became our group, so this is proof that we're descended from Lava", etc. For Lodhi Rajput, would you support having the article clarify their claims vs. academic consensus? As well as the fact that it's mostly them calling themselves Lodhi Rajput, so I think the title should be Lodhi and the "Lodhi-Rajput" debate explained in Etymology or similar. MatthewVanitas (talk) 16:08, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

I don't think we disagree. :p This is not my area of expertise (or even interest); I was just reacting to the "telling stories" line. Of course articles must ideally be well referenced, etc. I was just pointing out that stories are probably the most important thing about a caste, considering as how a "caste" is essentially a fiction, whose existence depends on some common beliefs (stories) shared by its members, about the world and about themselves. If you have sources that say they started claiming Kshatriya status in 1900 (or whatever), that is also a noteworthy fact worthy of being in the article. The thing about stories and legends (unlike facts) is that it's fine (and more informative) if they are contradictory! Your Google search shows that a lot of sources call them "Lodhi Rajputs" so that may be worth mentioning also. Anyway, I usually don't edit caste articles, so I'll stop here. :-) Shreevatsa (talk) 16:36, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Good deal, I think we're pretty much on the same page: their own personal fictions are cool so long as the fact that they believe XYZ is documented. I'm just going to go and make sure that any documented "they believe XYZ but it's simply not true" are accounted for. Then I'll try to get a few more editors to watchlist it to prevent folks coming back in and putting "... are all noble warriors of kingly heritage." pseudo-history. MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:15, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

You're right -- few of these articles use proper attribution. Instead of "According to a legend mentioned in the Puranas, the people of this caste are the descendant of Krishna", they read "Krishna also belonged to this caste".

Unfortunately, pretty much every non-stub article on Indian castes is full of legends, mythology and pseudo-history presented as facts. The articles about the castes claiming Kshatriya status are the worst -- several of them list Rama, Krishna or some other Hindu god in the "Notable <caste name> people" section. Others claim every other famous Indian emperor as one of their own based on some fringe theory in a obscure book published by the local caste association. Some go as far as claiming European descent from the Greeks or some other famous 'warrior tribe'.

I've tried monitoring several of these articles in the past, but it's a stressful job with tens of caste patriots undoing your attempts to make these articles look encyclopedic. I stopped bothering long ago, because nobody except people from these castes (and sometimes, their 'rival' castes) reads these articles. utcursch | talk 06:34, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Concern regarding one sub article of Ankleshwar

Recently I found that in the wiki page of Ankleshwar a town in Gujarat there is an article at end which is named as Notable people. It seems to be very annoying since encyclopedias shouldn't contain this section and also there might be few people who have not done anything but their name is up. What to do in such case, delete it ??

Rangilo Gujarati 18:11, 14 March 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rangilo Gujarati (talk • contribs)

What I tend to do is this: put ] up on all names, see which are red. I leave those that are blue, and of those that are red I leave only those that seem like they would definitely rate an article at some point in the near future. All others I put in hidden tags, along with something like this: <!-- DO NOT RESTORE THESE NAMES TO THE VISIBLE LIST UNTIL THEY HAVE THEIR OWN WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES TO PROVE NOTABILITY -->.

So, that's one man's method. MatthewVanitas (talk) 18:37, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Meaning of rajgharana, thikan

These two words are used in the article Lodhi, and a gBooks search hasn't cleared up the issue. Meanings? Worth having articles on? MatthewVanitas (talk) 20:28, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

User:Dcmpuri/Swami Nigamananda

This is a userfied version of an article, evidently written by an enthusiastic follower, which has been in and out under many different titles and was most recently deleted after WP:Articles for deletion/Swami Nigamananda. The author appealed to me as the closing admin, and I have told him that I will not change my decision, so that he will have to go to WP:DRV, but suggested that the article will have a better chance if he can improve it, and userfied it to give him the opportunity. It has a major problem of non-neutral tone, and it needs to be clearer whether people other than the Swami's disciples consider him important enough for notability. Any help or advice for Dcmpuri (talk) would be appreciated. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:36, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

I've offered my services on his Talk. Looking at gBooks, there are at least a few scholarly mentions of the man that establish at least some basic notability. We can probably scrap those together with some very basic biographical data from the more POV-but-published sources, and then maybe cite a few POV items as "his followers believe XYZ". Bob's your uncle. And then watchlist to make sure people don't sneak back in to turn it to hagiography. MatthewVanitas (talk) 00:12, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami has been requested to be renamed, see Talk:2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami . 184.144.160.156 (talk) 03:26, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Chaotic merge at Paramara (Rajput group)

This article existed as several forks under three different spellings (this group can apparently be spelled about a dozen different ways). I've merged the articles, but I focused mainly on preserving content more than on fine-tuning the merge. This would be less excusable, except that all versions were pretty messy as it was, but now at least all the spellings redirect there and all content is in one place. The article (now with all spellings) gets about 3k views per month, so not huge, but big enough to chip on if someone would like to tweak a Rajput article. MatthewVanitas (talk) 16:26, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Daisy Ogle

The article Daisy Ogle has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

a search for references found no published (gBooks) support for this subject. Fails WP:V and WP:N

While all contributions to Misplaced Pages are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 17:22, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

I did a basic gBooks search and already found several references. I added one basic one and removed the Prod tag, replaced with a {{ref-improve}} tag. MatthewVanitas (talk) 19:44, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

WPENGVAR template:Indian English

{{Indian English}} use of the flag is in question, see Template talk:American English

184.144.160.156 (talk) 02:59, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Edit-warring at Ram Rahim Singh

I'm not an expert on the subject, but there has been a lot of reverting going on at this article for the last few weeks. If anyone with knowledge of the topic would care to look over the article and comment on the talk page, I would appreciate it. —Torchiest _edits 20:17, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Proposal to delete portal - Portal India/Quiz

Portal:India/Quiz has degenerated into a quiz which has nothing whatsoever to do with editting Misplaced Pages. As such, since Misplaced Pages is not a blog, webspace provider, social network, or memorial site, it is prosed to delete this page. The afficionados of the Quiz are free to move it offline to Wikia or elsewhere.

The issue was brought to notice on the talk page by me (Diff) and during a quiz (Diff) but no interest is shown by anyone into making it relevant to Misplaced Pages.

This post is for informing all and for discussion before I post it at WP:MFD.

AshLin (talk) 09:53, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Nowhere has it been said that this quiz either intends to improve Misplaced Pages or that it's got anything to do with editing India-related articles. I think it's good that editors are given a chance to socialise. The quiz introduction clearly says, " is run as a friendly competition to test and improve your knowledge of India. Most importantly, it's supposed to be fun."

Having said that, it is a very essential page and many of the mentioned topics in it have most under-developed articles and very often, don't have articles. This is used to motivate editors, but it's not this quiz's goal.

I quite frankly can't see why this harmless quiz which has been there for years now would disturb anyone. Shahid • 14:58, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Well, of course, this is not a place for socialising. But I am in favour of retaining it. It was proposed here that each question be prepared around a redlink. Also, I don't think many DYKs are coming out of this. I am aware that this has not been happening much of late, but this is a great opportunity for editors to find out things that need to be edited, or created, or improved. Yes Michael? • 15:33, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

No one says that editors shouldn't socialise! There is #irc chat, the wikimedia sendmail lists, personal email, Twitter, Facebook etc. This is Misplaced Pages and as per policy NOT a place for socialising. So all I'm saying is if its not helping Misplaced Pages, move it somewhere else.

From what is apparent, there is no attempt for the last few quizzes to improve Misplaced Pages. As per the stated aims, they are supposed to update the DYKs on Portal India but please check the history of the quiz page and editors contributions for yourselves.

Shahid, if there is no quiz, there is zero difference to Misplaced Pages. On what grounds do you say that it is essential? Mike, if it has to be retained, it has to visibly contribute to Misplaced Pages through every question! As of now, its just adding feel good factor. Let's face it - these quiz editors are spending more time on these then on edits and no contribution is coming out of that time. I can't stop them from using their time as they like. However, this travesty in the name of improving articles can certainly be got rid off. AshLin (talk) 15:54, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

I think we should let Ashlin win the current round.. :p -- Longhairandabeard (talk) 19:26, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, that would be nice but better still would be someone proposing to fundamentally change the nature of the quiz so that it serves both the purpose of fun and contributing to Misplaced Pages. I have been waiting for someone to suggest this but it does not seem to have to struck anyone's mind as the ideal way to resolve this issue. AshLin (talk) 04:19, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Test case

User:Vishwaprabha started the first question of the current quiz with :

UP has 4 of them. Next come Kerala, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu with 3 each and Andrapradesh, Bihar and Karnataka with 2 each. 5 more states and 3 union territories (including Delhi) have just one each.
What are they?

The discussion ran from 4th to 9th March. When specifically queried by me as to what use this was to Misplaced Pages,

And how is all this helping develop India articles?

User:Vishwaprabha has this to say:

That very page List_of_international_airports_in_India is currently an orphan. I think it can be linked quite well with other related articles.

Please check history of List_of_international_airports_in_India (Diff). There is no effort from User:Vishwaprabha to de-orphan the article. No other improvement to this article took place during that time from Users Vishwaprabha, Prasad, Shahid or reuben_lys. In fact, except for User:Shahid (Shshsh), Users Vishwaprabha, Prasad, or reuben_lys did no edits other than the Quiz during that time.

As far as the Portal is concerned, there is not a single edit of the main Portal page between 19 January and 14 March 2011. As far as Portal:India/DYK is concerned, the last DYK was added on 16 Feb 2010. No prizes for guessing how many rounds of quiz took place since then. AshLin (talk) 16:17, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

I rest my case. AshLin (talk) 16:09, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

I agree with AshLin that there hasn't been anything going on there which could be seen as constructive to Misplaced Pages. However, I still think it should be retained. I do not know if we can actually formulate rules which say that every question must be formed around a redlink, but if such a rule can be made, then it should be. Yes Michael? • 03:31, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Good idea, MikeLynch. A set of guidelines for a question could be laid down, such as:

• The question asked must be based on a proposed DYK or fact (with reference), red link to be created, expansion of stub, etc to be included in WP.
• After the question/answer banter, we could specify that two requirements be met before the next question is asked :
  • The follow-up edits which contribute to article mainspace around that question should be shown with a diff by the guy who had asked the question/answered it correctly.
  • The DYK for India:Portal must be added by the guy who had asked the question/answered it correctly.
• Rest unchanged.

It is not the existance of the quiz that bothers me but the contrast between the great interest shown by participants of the quiz on one hand and the complete apathy to improve WP & Portal:India on the other. My aim was not to be a spoilsport by deleting the quiz, though I have no doubt I may be seen in that light but to get people around to change their approach. It is sad that the only meaningful little discussion on this is between you and me - both non-particpants of the quiz. AshLin (talk) 04:29, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Do India and Srilanka share a Land Border

There seem to be referances on wikipedia about a small atoll on Adams Bridge that forms one of the smallest land Borders (between India with Srilanka). This is ofcourse refuted by many other pages. How can this issue be addressed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.50.14.235 (talk) 09:54, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Recent changes made in the titles of a number of Indian State Legislature articles

The titles of a number of Indian state legislature articles, namely Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha, Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Parishad, Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha, Maharashtra Vidhan Parishad and Bihar Vidhan Parishad were changed by the User:Good Olfactory without any prior discussion. It is well known that the state legislations of a number of Indian states are more widely known as the Vidhan Sabha and the Vidhan Parishad and the Indian Legislative Bodies website has mentioned them in the same way.. Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assemebly website (http://uplegisassembly.gov.in/) and Bihar Legislative Council website (http://www.biharvidhanparishad.gov.in/) have also mentioned similarly. I want to draw the attention of the WikiProject India members on these changes and request them to kindly share their opinions. I feel the titles of these articles should be reverted back till the consensus is formed. Thanks.

References

1. Legislative Bodies in India]

Joy1963 04:08, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

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• NA-importance India pages
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