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==Sri Aurobindo template==
Thanks Varun for the Sri Aurobindo template improvement.  It looks great! [[User:M Alan Kazlev|M Alan Kazlev]] 21:58, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

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The image is not in the public domain, but is copyrighted and tagged with a fair use tag as you note above. Per terms of [[Wikipedia:Fair use criteria]] item #9, the use of fair use images on templates is proscribed. This covers all such uses, (quoting the policy) "even if legal under the fair use clauses of copyright law". You are welcome to put the image into articles specifically having to do with the organization represented by the image, but you are not permitted to put it into a template. I hope this clarifies the matter? If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer. All the best, --[[User:Durin|Durin]] 12:14, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

:Why not contact the ashram and ask permission to use the image?  [[User:M Alan Kazlev|M Alan Kazlev]] 23:07, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

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==Sri Aurobindo's biography==

hi Varun

At the moment unfortunately I am really immersed in writing my own book.  So sure I'm happy to help, but it can only be part time, and we need other people as well.  

The problem with the wiki page as it is now is that it is presented in a very "devotional" manner.  By that I mean it says stuff like "according to Sri Aurobindo (such and such)" but then there are very few references or footnotes at the end of each statement.  I added a few a while back, but it needs heaps more.  To make it more academic, each paragraph, and often sentences, should be accompanied by page references to ''The Life Divine'' and other major works. But i'm not the sort of person who can cite chapter and verse, so we need people who are familar with page by page and chapter by chapter content of Sri Aurobindo's collected works.

There is also a strong need for more references/footnotes in the biography section.  I'll add some when i have more time.

Also, the influence of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy, at the end of the page, is in strong need of developing.  I'll try to add some more material there as well.

The page also seems to be unbalanced, in that a very large amount of space is devoted to Sri Aurobindo's teachings, and this could be transferred to separate pages on his difefrent major works.  I had originally put up these as individual pages but as is typical of Wikipedia - and i totally agree with you, it suffers from an occidental bias as well as a materialistic bias - these had to be merged into a single big page ([[Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo]]).  I think that we could easily restore them tpo individual pages, but to do that we would need to find third party refernces and citations.  And that is where academic scholarship is useful.  If you know of good third party references, reviews etc that would be great.

I would certainly like to see several qualified people working on this page.  Do you know of anyone else who would be interested in collaborating on this project? [[User:M Alan Kazlev|M Alan Kazlev]] ([[User talk:M Alan Kazlev|talk]]) 00:31, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

===Peter Heehs paper ===

No probs.  I can email the pdf of Heehs' essay to you.  Just write to me at alankazlev (at) ihug (dot) com (dot) au [[User:M Alan Kazlev|M Alan Kazlev]] ([[User talk:M Alan Kazlev|talk]]) 23:30, 20 July 2009 (UTC)


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Hi Varun, your nomination of the article [[Sri Aurobindo]] has been selected as a candidate for Collaboration of the month for Wikiproject India. Aim is to get GA/FA status for the article. Hope you can find time to contribute and involve more people to collaborate. Currently the article needs a good amount of inline citations for sure.--[[User:GDibyendu|GDibyendu]] ([[User talk:GDibyendu|talk]]) 10:10, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

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*Three members of the project, [[User:Abecedare|Abecedare]], [[User:Tinucherian|Tinu Cherian]] and [[User:SpacemanSpiff|SpacemanSpiff]] received their [[Wikipedia:Administrators|sysop mops]] in October-December 2009. Congratulations!
*[[File:Sikh pilgrim at the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib) in Amritsar, India.jpg|thumb|450px|left|This picture, shot in India, won the [[Commons:Picture of the Year]] contest 2009. Translations of the description in Indian languages are solicited.]]
*Wikipedians in Bangalore have been organising [[WP:MBL|periodic meetups]] over the past year, in collaboration with the [http://www.cis-india.org Centre for Internet and Society]. The '''[[Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore16|next meetup]]''' is scheduled for July 18, 2010. Indian and other Wikipedians from all Wikipedias in various languages are welcome to attend.
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*A discussion is underway [[Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#Indian_number_names|here]] to reach a consensus regarding the use of Indian number names (''lakh'', ''crore'' etc.) in Wikipedia articles. Please participate and add your comments.

*Join the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject India/DashBot Unreferenced BLPs|effort to source]] and save unreferenced Indian BLPs.

*Some unintended vandalism is going on at the Assamese Wikipedia by the [[:as:বিশেষ:অৱদানবোৰ/Anshuman.jrt|sole active editor]]. This is a request for Assamese-conversant Wikipedians to [[Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics/Archive_43#Large_scale_misspelling_in_Assamese_wikipedia|help resolve the issue]].

*A discussion is in progress [[Talk:List_of_art_music_traditions#Move_proposal|here]] in order to determine whether non-Western (including Indian) forms of classical music should be referred to by the nomenclature of ''art music'' instead of ''classical music''. Please participate and add your comments.

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*The [[World Classical Tamil Conference 2010]] is at present underway in [[Coimbatore]], and the Tamil Wikipedia is actively involved at the event. A detailed report will follow in the next issue.

*[[Wikimania#Wikimania_2010|Wikimania 2010]] is happening in Poland from July 7-11. Indian Wikipedians attending include [[User:Gurubrahma|Gurubrahma]], [[:ml:user:Shijualex|Shiju Alex]], [[:ta:user:Ravidreams|Ravidreams]] , [[:ml:User:Santhosh.thottingal|Santhosh Thottingal]], [[User:Tinucherian|Tinu Cherian]], WMF Board member [[Bishakha Datta]] and Advisory Board member Achal Prabala. We wish them all the best! More on their experiences in the next issue.

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[[Swami Bhaskaranand Saraswati]],
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[[Barak Missile Deal Scandal]],
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[[China Town, Kolkata]],
Dr. [[Rahi Masoom Raza]],
[[Energy policy of India]],
[[Essar Shipping]],
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Fair use|Fair use]],
[[Hinduism in India]],
[[Imperial Bank of India|Imperial Bank]],
[[Inbuan Wrestling]],
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[[Iran-India relations]],
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[[Indian Copyright Act]],
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[[Wikipedia:Notice board for India-related topics/to do|To do]],
[[Wikipedia:Notice board for India-related topics/Version 1.0 assesment|Version 1.0 assesment]],
[[Portal:India|India Portal]],
[[Template:Life in India|Life in India]],
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== WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 2 - November 2010==

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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 [[meta:Wikimedia_India|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 [https://github.com/srikanthlogic/WikipediaDYKTweeter bot] to post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject to [http://twitter.com/dykindia Twitter] was created and launched by [[User:Logicwiki]].


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The [[Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Replacement_for_the_late_Article_Alert_Bot|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 [[WP:INAA|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 [[Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Outreach/Newsletter/June 2010|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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3ANoticeboard_for_India-related_topics&action=historysubmit&diff=393196649&oldid=392948652 discussion] in the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion of [[User:Wikiality123|Wiki San Roze]]'s party symbol images by [[User:Hammersoft|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.
 
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*The [http://bn.wikisource.org 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 [[meta:Wikisource|List of Wikisource]] page, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages.

[[File:Bala 026.jpg|thumb|right|The Tamil Wikipedia stall at the [[World Classical Tamil Conference 2010]] in [[Coimbatore]] in June 2010.]]
*The uploading of Tamil technical words donated by [[Tamil Virtual University]] to the [http://ta.wiktionary.org 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 [http://s23.org/wikistats/wiktionaries_html.php largest wiktionaries] and has earned it a place in the [http://www.wiktionary.org 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.

[[File:2010-07-11-gdansk-by-RalfR-001.jpg|thumb|right|[[Jimmy Wales]] introduces the Malayalam Wikipedia CD of [[:ml:WP:Version 1|500 selected articles]] during his key note address at [[Wikimania 2010]] at Gdansk.]]

*The [[:hi:Wikipedia|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 [http://www.wikibhasha.com/ WikiBhasha] translation and contribution toolkit developed by [[Microsoft Research]].

*Malayalam wikimedian [[:ml:user:Santosh.thottingal|Santhosh Thottingal]] has developed a software (Wiki2CD) for the creation of the [[ml:വിക്കിപീഡിയ:Version_1|Malayalam Wikipedia CD]], which was launched in 2010. In addition, Santosh, along with fellow Malayalam wikimedian [[:ml:user:Shijualex|Shiju Alex]] coordinated a panel discussion at Wikimania 2010 on [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/wikimania2010/wiki/Submissions/Creating_offline_version_of_Wiki_content_-_Solutions_and_Challenges creation of offline Wiki content]. 

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[[WP:MMU1|Mumbai]] and [[WP:MDH1|Delhi]] held their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead and [[User:Bishdatta|Bishakha Datta]] met up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later, [[WP:MHB1|Hyderabad]] also held its first meetup. 

[[File:Wikimeetup19_Blore_0540.JPG|thumb|left|240px|[[User:Arunram|Arun Ram]], [[:ml:user:Shijualex|Shiju Alex]] and Barry Newstead releasing the Wikimedia India community newsletter at the nineteenth Bangalore meetup on 24 September 2010.]] 

Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at the [http://www.cis-india.org/ Centre for Internet and Society], with the [[WP:MBL19|nineteenth meetup]] in September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of the [[meta:File:Wikimedia India Community Newsletter 2010 September.pdf|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. 

[[File:Jimmy Wales Mumbai 31 October 2010.ogg|thumb|left|Jimmy Wales speech at the Mumbai Wikipedia Meetup #3 on 31 October 2010. Intro by [[User:Bishdatta]] & [[User:Arunram]]. (Recorded by [[User:AshLin]].)]]

Wikipedia founder [[User:Jimbo Wales|Jimmy Wales]] had an interaction with Wikipedians followed by a [http://www.slideshare.net/HeadStart/jimmy-wales-at-wikipedia-mumbai-meet-3 presentation] to members of the public at the [[WP:MMU2|third Wikipedia meetup in Mumbai]] on October 31, 2010.

The first [[WP:IWM1|Wikimarathon]], where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups in [[WP:MBL21|Bangalore]] and [[WP:MCH2|Chennai]] on November 14, 2010. Wikipedians in [[Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi2|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 [[User:Bishdatta|Bishakha Datta]] and Indian Wikipedian [[User:Gurubrahma|Srinivas Gunta]] co-authored a panel presentation at Wikimania 2010 on the [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/wikimania2010/wiki/Submissions/Wikimedia_Asia_Project Wikimedia Asia Project].

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*Two current [[WP:FA|featured articles]], [[2007 Samjhauta Express bombings]] and [[Economy of India]] have been nominated for reviews [[Wikipedia:Featured_article_review/2007_Samjhauta_Express_bombings/archive1|here]] and [[Wikipedia:Featured_article_review/Economy_of_India/archive2|here]] respectively. Contribute and help prevent these articles from being delisted! 

*[[Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics#Articles_about_India|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 [[Talk:Famine_in_India|series of discussions]] are underway on the [[WP:NPOV|neutrality]] of the [[Famine in India]] article. Please comment and help resolve the disputes.

*Join the [http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l Wikimedia India mailing list] and the [irc://irc.freenode.org/wikimedia-in IRC channel] for regular updates and discussions. Links to language-specific forums are available [[:meta:Wikimedia_India#Other_mailing_lists.2Fgroups.2Fnoticeboards|here]].

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==[[Wikipedia:Proposed deletion|Proposed deletion]] of [[Philosophy and Spiritualism of Sri Aurobindo]]==
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The article [[Philosophy and Spiritualism of Sri Aurobindo]] has been [[Wikipedia:Proposed deletion|proposed for deletion]]&#32; because of the following concern:
:'''Sadly. This may be a notable topic but I am struggling to find decent non-primary references for it. Currently it is simply an essay sourced directly from "The Life Divine" and needs complete reworking - something it has been tagged for for over a year - to get right.'''

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On 13 March 2011, this preference was hidden from the user preferences screen as part of efforts to prevent its accidental misuse ([[Help_talk:Minor_edit#Should_we_remove_the_Preference_setting_to_.22Mark_all_edits_minor_by_default.22_.3F|consensus discussion]]). This had the effect of locking users in to their existing preference, which, in your case, was <code>true</code>. To complete the process, your preference will automatically be changed to <code>false</code> in the next few days. This does ''not'' require any intervention on your part and you will still be able to manually mark your edits as being 'minor'. The only thing that's changed is that you will no longer have them marked as minor by default.

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==Invite to WikiConference India 2011 == 

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== Wikimedia Stories Project ==


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My name is Victor Grigas, I’m a storyteller at the Wikimedia Foundation working on collecting stories of Indian Wikipedians for the 2011 fundraiser.

I found your name on this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Bangalore 

I’ll be traveling to India from the 12th -20th of November to conduct face to face interviews with Indian Wikipedians. I’ll be in Bangalore from November 12-15 and in Mumbai for WikiConference India from November 17 - 20.

If you are interested, and would like to schedule an interview with me, please mark your time and place of interview on this page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/Indiastorytelling or send me an email (vgrigas@wikimedia.org) with any questions or concerns you may have.

If you feel that you’d like to talk to me, but wont be able to make it to either of these locations and would like to schedule a Skype or Telephone interview, please email me at vgrigas@wikimedia.org

Cheers,
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== Revival of COTM ==

Hi,

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, <strong>[[User:AroundTheGlobe|<span style="font-family:Script MT Bold;color:DarkBlue">Around The Globe</span>]]</strong>[[User_talk:AroundTheGlobe|<sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:Gray">सत्यमेव जयते</span></sup>]] 14:18, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
== WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 Contest ==

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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 [[Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2012|Tag & Assess 2012]] drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.

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You can sign up on the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2012|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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== April 2014 ==
[[File:Nuvola apps important.svg|25px|link=|alt=Warning icon]] Hello Varungarde, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to [[:Philosophy and Spiritualism of Sri Aurobindo]] has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without [[Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission|permission]] from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

*You can only copy/translate a ''small'' amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double [[quotation mark]]s (") and a cited source. You can read about this at [[Wikipedia:Non-free content]] in the sections on "text". See also [[Help:Referencing for beginners]], for how to cite sources here.
*Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information ''in your own words and structure'', in proper [[paraphrase]]. Following the source's words too closely can create [[derivative work|copyright problems]], so it is not permitted here; see [[Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing]]. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, [http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/01/ hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue].) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to [[Wikipedia:Verifiability|verify]] information and to demonstrate that the content is not [[Wikipedia:No original research|original research]]. 
*Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is [[Wikipedia:Copyrights]]. You may also want to review [[Wikipedia:Copy-paste]]. 
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*In ''very rare cases'' (that is, for sources that are [[public domain]] or [[Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright#Can I add something to Wikipedia that I got from somewhere else?|compatibly licensed]]), it ''may'' be possible to include greater portions of a source text. ''However'', please seek help at the [[Wikipedia:Help desk|help desk]] before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources ''may not'' be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you ''do'' confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see [[Wikipedia:Plagiarism]] for the steps you need to follow.
*Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied without attribution. If you want to copy from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in [[Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia]].

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be [[Wikipedia:Blocking policy|blocked]] from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. ''Virtually the entire article was copy and paste from other sources'' Thank you. <!--Template:uw-copyright-new--> [[User:Dougweller|Dougweller]] ([[User talk:Dougweller|talk]]) 14:01, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

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