Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maharashtra
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Please give me suggestion for improving Mumbai Police article. My goal is to create article as of New York police just follow the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nypd Suyogaerospace (talk) 12:13, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Khillari Bull
[edit]I have created the Khillari Bull with some some external links referenced in it,since i am new could some one please wikify the page -- Shanbhag.rohan 08:13, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
- For future reference, Shanbhag's entry is at Khillari cattle. -- Gaurav (talk) 17:40, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Watchlists
[edit]To help this workgroup patrol existing articles for vandalism/recent changes, Ganeshbot has created the Wikipedia:WikiProject Maharashtra/Articles page. This page will be updated on a regular basis. Please do remind me if I forget. :) It contains articles that were tagged with the India banner and fall under the scope of this workgroup. Please let me know in case of any questions. Thanks, Ganeshk (talk) 11:35, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- That's great, Ganesh, thanks! How regularly are you planning on updating that page? And what's the easiest way to remind you if you forget? I'm sure that page will be enormously helpful to us. -- Gaurav (talk) 17:36, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Appropriate to fork of a template?
[edit]On the same lines of Template:Forts in India. After all, a substantial number of forts do exist in Maharashtra alone. It would be far better than me having to go to every single fort page and adding a "see also" link to the entire list. Thoughts? - Mayuresh 18:10, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, I think so! We could use List of forts in Maharashtra as a base. How does {{Forts in Maharashtra}} sound like to you? -- Gaurav (talk) 15:27, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
- Done. Suggestions/improvements welcome, go to it! -- Gaurav (talk) 16:00, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Infobox for forts?
[edit]How about a infobox for forts? We dont have one. For that matter, neither does wikipedia ;-) -Mayuresh 18:10, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
- I think that would be awesome. I'll do it later this month, unless someone beats me to it (hint, hint). -- Gaurav (talk) 15:27, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
WP:INDIA Tagging with TinucherianBot
[edit]TinucherianBot can automatically tag articles with {{WP India}} Banner as {{WP India|class=|importance=}} to the talk page of articles without the project banner. It can also add the workgroup paramaters like "|maharashtra=yes|maharashtra-importance=" etc ,if needed. The currently supported workgroups are Kerala, Maharashtra, Andhra pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Bengal, Goa, Himachal Pradesh , Karnataka , Punjab,cities, Cinema, Literature, Protected Areas of India, History, Politics states, Geography,Maps,Districts and Tamil.
If you need so, you need to provide me with the Categories to run the Bot. Due to some technical issues, the Bot will not run recursively to sub-categories. The requester should kindly verify that there are NO non-related articles in the category.
You may request for the bot run on my talk page... Thanks -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 06:05, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi project members, can you go thorough the following categories of this project ( collected from Category:Maharashtra )and identify the categories which I need to run the bot ? Please make sure there are no non-related project articles in that category . Please mark Y/N with your signature. Thanks in advance -- -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 08:50, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks, Tinucherian! I've put my suggestions in, I hope it helps. I hope the other project members will join in as well. Apart from providing input for your bot, this also gives us a quick overview of all the categories which are part of our project. -- Gaurav (talk) 12:38, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Gaurav. I have 'N'-ed Bollywood and Hindi film based cats. There are a few more left. Can someone help ? -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 10:51, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks, Tinucherian! I've put my suggestions in, I hope it helps. I hope the other project members will join in as well. Apart from providing input for your bot, this also gives us a quick overview of all the categories which are part of our project. -- Gaurav (talk) 12:38, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the co-operation. The cats are collected into Wikipedia:WikiProject Maharashtra/AutoTagging . If you need to add more catgeories in future, Please discuss at WP Maharashtra Discussion page and add them on agreement. You can see the progress of the BOT run at User:TinucherianBot/Autotagg/Maharashtra . The Bot will be run once per month or upon request. -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 04:46, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Doing... : Around 2554 articles list were collected. Will keep posted the results when completed -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 05:13, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Completed : Around 1684 articles were newly tagged to the scope of the workgroup . Currently there are 878 Unassessed of total 2580 articles ( Earlier 11/948) . -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 10:51, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
- Could you add the following categories to the list as well. Category:Caves of Maharashtra and Category:Islands of Maharashtra? Also can the bot be requested to run again? --Belasd (talk) 03:39, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Cleanup listings
[edit]User:WolterBot has created a Wikipedia:WikiProject Maharashtra/Cleanup listing page; it contains the articles that fall under the scope this workgroup and have cleanup tags on them. See this page for more information on this works. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Ganeshk (talk) 04:04, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Maharashtra Barnstar
[edit]I have created a Barnister for Maharashtra potral it can be found over herelink title —Preceding unsigned comment added by Suyogaerospace (talk • contribs) 11:21, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi guys,
There's been a lot of editing and rearranging going on at Pune over the last two months. It's still not as tight as I'd like it to be, but it's a whole lot cleaner than when we started. Could you pop on over and help tighten the text, find references for anything which needs referencing, and cleaning up in general? My hope is to push this page to a Wikipedia:Good articles in another month or two.
Thanks for your help! -- Gaurav (talk) 16:09, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
- I would be glad to assist. --GPPande 13:08, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
I soon aim to nominate Vithoba for FAC. I would like suggestions to improve the article to FA status. Also, i request some copyeditor to go through the article to polish the language, if needed.--Redtigerxyz (talk) 12:13, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
History of Mumbai, a recently listed GA, has been listed for a Peer review at Wikipedia:Peer review/History of Mumbai/archive2. Comments, Suggestions are welcomed. Thanks, KensplanetTC 09:36, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
List of Governors of Bombay is a Featured list candidate at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Governors of Bombay. Comments, Suggestions are welcomed. Thanks, KensplanetTC 09:36, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Need to Re-organize
[edit]Guys I personally feel that the main page should be reorganized so that more information can be included on the main page. I suggest we make some tabs and then add details like the contributors, the areas(i.e articles)included in the scope of this project. Please add your suggestions. Swapnils2106 (talk) 16:38, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
- Hi Swapnils2106,
- On the one hand, I'll like to butt in and say that I think the project page is fine as is. The list of participants should probably be moved out of the way, as it's growing long and unwieldy, and the end of the page - with the barnstars et al - should be cleaned up, but other than that ... I like how it is right now. Very to-the-point and informative.
- ... but on the other hand, the WikiProject isn't - I think? - really doing much together (other than using this talk page to get opinions on articles), so if you've got plans for WP:M, and think reorganizing the project page is the way to go about it - go right ahead, and all the best! If you're not sure of how it's going to come out, you could create another page (Wikipedia:WikiProject Maharashtra/Alternate layout, perhaps?), set up the alternate layout there, then get opinions from this talk page before copying that onto the main WP:M page.
- ... oh, and - of course - feel free to disregard all of the above and be bold!
- -- Gaurav (talk) 18:26, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi I kind-off agree with your views on this, there are not many people contributing to this page and the project in general. your idea of creating an alternate page seems to be superb. For the time being I have changed the layout a bit. I will certianly move the list of participants to a diffrent tab in a few days. The things which I did not like about the page was the introduction to the project the set goals and the scope. The presentation looked absolutely amatuer, and the wording was childish as well. Please check out the changes I made and let me know if you all think it was really needed. Swapnils2106 (talk) 12:44, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
How is the article featuring as a good article covered in the project? Swapnils2106T 13:04, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Language chauvinism
[edit]Hi All Members of Maharashtra Wiki,
I would just like to bring to the member's notice that there is a repeated vandalism by Kannada chauvinist. They are adding Kannada name references to pages of cities like Sangli, Kolhapur, Solapur, Miraj, Gadhinglaj for unnecessary reasons.
I know that some parts of these districts may have Kannada speaking population but these cities themselves are majority Marathi population.
I had also raised this issue in the talk page of Solapur a long ago.
But looks like most of the members have turned a blind eye towards this.
Requesting all members to take a note of this and do the needful.
Regards
Jay Maharashtra
WP 1.0 bot announcement
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GA reassessment of P. V. Narasimha Rao
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Unreferenced living people articles bot
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Vandalism on Solapur Page
[edit]Just for you attention. The Solapur wiki page is repeatedly getting vandalised by adding Kannada name of the city for no logical reasons.
Some other city pages may be subjected to this.
Requesting all to take a note on this.
59.160.135.215 (talk) 12:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
There is a dispute on Talk:Maharashtra#Marathi_statement_dispute about inclusion of the following ststements in Marathi (lead), Maharashtra and Pune articles:
| “ | Standard Marathi is defined as the language that is spoken by the Deshastha Brahmins of Pune. Standard Marathi is the official language of Maharashtra. | ” |
Please help to form a consensus by giving your valuable comments. Thanks. --Redtigerxyz Talk 09:53, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
Meeting in Mumbai 20 Sept 2010
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Meetup - 26
विकिपीडिया विकिभेट,
पुणे-24:उद्घोषित
time tbd
Saturday, 11 January 2020 (tbf)
Hello all! Barry Newstead, who has recently come on board as the Foundation's chief global development officer, comes to Mumbai 20-21 Sept as part of a weeklong India visit.
He and I are hoping to meet with wikipedians in Mumbai on 20 Sept eve - informally, to share and discuss the Foundation's plans for India, and to hear from the community on how to boost and strengthen projects in English and other Indian languages.
Would you be available and interested to meet with us on Mon 20 Sept eve? Please leave a message on my talk page. Thanks!
Bishdatta (talk) 13:48, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Maharashtra articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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WikiProject cleanup listing
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Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune announced
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Meetup - 26
विकिपीडिया विकिभेट,
पुणे-24:उद्घोषित
time tbd
Saturday, 11 January 2020 (tbf)
A reminder for the 13th Meetup of Wikipedians in Pune, Maharashtra. Please see themeetup page for details and indicate your attendance. The intended purpose of the meetup is:
to discuss the Campus Ambassador Program and forthcoming WikiConference 2011.
Highlights - Hisham Mundol, National Director, India Program & Bishakha Datta, Global Trustee, Wikimedia Foundation will be present for the meetup.
AshLin (talk) 04:13, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
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
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Important Wikipedians Meetup in Pune - Campus Ambassador Training (04-05 Jun 2011)
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Meetup - 26 There is a lot happening in Pune next week. We have a lot of visitors in town who would especially like to interact with the Pune Community. Our help and cooperation has been sought for the Campus Ambassador training event next weekend. Our MEETUP DATE IS NOW CHANGED FROM 11 JUN TO 04 JUN 2011 (Saturday) at 1800 hours at SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th floor. Hisham Mundol, National Program Coordinator, who is leading the Campus Ambassador programme, Bishakha Datta, Trustee, and Tinu Cherian, the quintessential Indian outreach activist, will also be coming for and participating in the meet -a rare treat for us. We have a number of people visiting us from abroad. Frank Schulenburg, Head of Public Outreach and Annie Lin, who leads the Ambassador Program are visiting Pune for the Campus Ambassador training event on 04-05 Jun 2011. We also have P.J. Tabit coming down to India between June 1st and August 21st to support the launch of the Wikipedia India Education Program. PJ is a Campus Ambassador in the US and is on the Ambassador Steering Committee for Wikipedia. We also have Tory Read who is coming over to document and write the exciting story of how Wikipedia is developing in the world. She will meet and interact with prominent Pune Wikipedians during that time. Tory will be in Pune for the Campus Ambassador training and after Pune, will be going around from one Wikipedian community to another in various cities of India. Broadly speaking, the campus ambassadors will be trained on 4th and 5th Jun by the outreach team comprising lndian and foreign Wikipedians. In the evening on Saturday, the campus ambassadors and the outreach team will be present for our meetup. AshLin (talk) 12:47, 28 May 2011 (UTC) |
Language Guidance for Sai Baba of Shirdi
[edit]Could someone with a sense of MOS guidelines look at Sai Baba of Shirdi? In the article lead sentence, Sai's name appears in Hindi, Marathi, and Urdu. I think this is overkill, yes? Thanks. --Nemonoman (talk) 20:44, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
requesting artcle about Marathi WIkipedia
[edit]We have an article about other language wikipedias on en wiki.Marathi language wikipedia is also equally prominant wikipedia with reasonable number of third party ref and criticism too SO please contribute to Marathi Wikipedia article
नमस्कार, सध्या इंग्रजी विकिपीडियावर हिंदी मल्याळम इत्यादी विकिपीडीयांबद्दल लेख आहेत पण मराठी विकिपीडीया बद्दल लेख उपलब्ध नाही, तो चालू करण्याच्या दृष्टीने इंग्रजी विकिपीडियाच्या नियमास अनुसरून आपण तो Marathi Wikipediaया धूळपाटी सँडबॉक्सवर चालू करत आहोत. १ मे ह्या मराठी विकिपीडीया वाढदिवसापूर्वी त्याची निर्मिती पूर्ण होण्याच्या दृष्टीने योगदान करावे हि नम्र विनंती.
Thanks and regards
Mahitgar (talk) 08:02, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Maharashtra day
[edit]Hi members, just a suggestion. Would be great if we organize an edit-a-thon on May 1, i.e on Maharashtra Day to work together on the article of our state Maharashtra. The article has quite a lot of issues, for which its is being tagged incl. Its neutrality is disputed, It needs to be updated, etc. What say? -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 11:17, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
The article कॉलेज आणी त्यापलीकडील जीवन has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- Upon expiration of this PROD, this article will have been listed at WP:PNTFC for two weeks without being rewritten into English.
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Peths of Pune
[edit]See Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics#Peths_of_Pune PamD 13:55, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Call for volunteering to report bugs for VisualEditor Universal Language Selector input: Marathi and Hindi
[edit]Hello,
While technically unicode input has been enabled in VisualEditor,It is long way to practically usable for indic languages.Since most developers would not be using Universal Language Selector input methods and would not be knowing indic languages such as Marathi and Hindi it would be defficult for them to understand problem areas.
Only few people doing effort is not enough.We need more volunteering specially indic people on english wikipedia atleast know what is Visual Editor by now.Please do take a lead to test Universale language input methods for indic languages in VE environment.Please report problems at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.For a while please do keep aside your individual aprehensions about Visual Editor and come forward to report problems. Your lead will benefit indic wikipedias.
Thanks in advance.
Mahitgar (talk) 07:36, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
requesting help for 'help video clip'
[edit]Hi, I came across one video clip for ULS help for Telugu language wikipedia as shown below. The clip is usefull but it does not show how to access help page. We will apreciate if some one helps us with simmiller clip for Marathi language.
Thanks & Regards Mahitgar (talk) 15:16, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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WikiProject X is live!
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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
If anyone could look over this article, I'd be grateful. It's been tagged for notability for over 7 years, and has been to AfD three times but is struggling to attract comments. Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 19:37, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
Proposed move discussion of a featured article Vithoba to Vitthal is going on here Talk:Vithoba#Requested move 29 July 2015. Comments are requested for that. Thank you. --Human3015Send WikiLove 13:48, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
Please help to rewrite.Xx236 (talk) 07:24, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
Freida Pinto FAC
[edit]I've nominated the article for FAC. Constructive feedback would be appreciated – Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Freida Pinto/archive3. Thanks, —Vensatry (Talk) 17:04, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
Currently active, the candidate shall gain some benefit from few constructive comments. Regards, Pavanjandhyala (talk) 12:01, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
An online editathon for the project
[edit]Hey guys. If people are interested we can have an online editathon where we can: 1) translate the wikiproject maharashtra articles from english to marathi / hindi / other regional wikipedias, 2) create new english articles in english wikipedia itself, 3) improve existing articles. What say people? abhilash_kp (talk) 04:56, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
Dubious content: Pimpri Chinchwad article
[edit]Dear editors, I believe that the following content violates wikipedia policy on advertising. Moreover, the editor does not provide valid verifiable references for the entry. Please refer to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_soapbox_or_means_of_promotion
"Many builders like P3 Developers, Rama Builders, Ellora Builders, Pharande Spaces, Privia Group have been involved in making top end projects in this Industrial Belt of Pune."
I have marked it as dubious and have requested comments. This content has previosuly been removed by other editors, although it gets reentered. I do not know how to proceed with this. Please help. Best, Berlindian (talk) 16:43, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Maratha reservation movement
[edit]As of now, this deserves an article (passes GNG). The movement has been going on for around five years: plenty of sources. Also, other documented requests redates the events of Maratha Kranti Morcha. I have created a rudimentary draft, and added some sources at Draft talk:Maratha Aarakshan movement#Usable sources. But unfortunately I dont have much experience with creating such articles. Would somebody help me please? But I can work on it with help/collaboration. Also, I can bring in the relevant sources from last 10 years easily.
Once the article is in mainspace/listed by search engines, a lot more people would add to it; and I will handle the issues of POV, adding sources, and other stuff including gnoming. All I need is help in the beginning. Also, I request to continue the discussion on Draft talk:Maratha Aarakshan movement, as I have posted this message to 3-4 different, but mostly inactive, venues. Thanks a lot in advance, —usernamekiran(talk) 19:14, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
Prabhu Communities
[edit]Could a member of this project please review the new article Prabhu Communities? (please ping if you want me to respond) power~enwiki (π, ν) 19:24, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
Twinkle Khanna GAR
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A new newsletter directory is out!
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Nomination of Portal:Mumbai for deletion
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A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Mumbai is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Mumbai (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 06:00, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
[edit]Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.
We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
Mumbai Fire Brigade
[edit]I've been working on cleaning up, sourcing and expanding the page for the Mumbai Fire Brigade, and would appreciate some feedback/a fresh pair of eyes to see what needs to be done to further improve the page. Thanks! R1988 (talk) 14:02, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
Is this a notable road, or not? Please ping me. Bearian (talk) 21:27, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I am ExclusiveEditor and I have noticed that there is no WikiProject for the Konkan division of Maharashtra state. Konkan is a vast part of Maharashtra and there are many categories and subcategories regarding it, also there are numerous pages about its vast culture. What I have seen is that the quality of the pages can be much improved if there is a special WikiProject for it, and therefore I have proposed WikiProject Konkan here. Kindly support the proposal and join it when ready if interested. Regards ExclusiveEditor (talk) 10:31, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
New Page Patrol
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- New Page Patrol needs experienced volunteers
- New Page Patrol is currently struggling to keep up with the influx of new articles, including Maharashtra related articles. We could use a few extra hands on deck if you think you can help.
- Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines; Wikipedia needs experienced users to perform this task and there are precious few with the appropriate skills. Even a couple reviews a day can make a huge difference.
- If you would like to join the project and help out, please see the granting conditions and review our instructions page. You can apply for the user-right HERE. --John B123 (talk) 14:11, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
List of villages in Maharashtra
[edit]Category:Lists of villages in Maharashtra have list about some talukas but many districts and talukas have no mention on this page. I suggest you to add list for Mumbai, Kolhapur, Jalgaon, Pune, Nashik etc districts in it. Success think Success think (talk) 22:34, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indian politics § Proposal : Wikipedia:Naming conventions Indian constituencies
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You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indian politics § Proposal : Wikipedia:Naming conventions Indian constituencies. --Venkat TL (talk) 13:32, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Bhandara (disambiguation)#Requested move 19 March 2023
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There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Bhandara (disambiguation)#Requested move 19 March 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 20:46, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
Project-independent quality assessments
[edit]Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.
No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.
However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:07, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
Need Inputs On Introduction For Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
[edit]Hi Community,
I had done some edits to Introduction Section of article on Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shivaji&oldid=1160298444 ) to make it more balanced and focussed on facts, but one of the users has reverted it.
I started discussion on Talk page (Talk:Shivaji#Introduction Section Needs Changes), but we are at an impasse. It would be great if some people from Project Maharashtra can pitch in and share their opinion. Nonentity683 (talk) 12:14, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Good article reassessment for Paresh Mokashi
[edit]Paresh Mokashi has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 16:22, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Berar Sultanate#Requested move 5 May 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Berar Sultanate#Requested move 5 May 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Wikiexplorationandhelping (talk) 05:13, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport#Requested move 13 August 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport#Requested move 13 August 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 01:09, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Maratha Confederacy#Requested move 24 September 2024
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Maratha Confederacy#Requested move 24 September 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Web-julio (talk) 03:50, 6 October 2024 (UTC)