User talk:Usernamekiran

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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Useful idiot. Legobot (talk) 04:29, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Is that you DumbBOT?

—usernamekiran(talk) 19:59, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Not cleared !

Hlo !!! Yesterday you have been left a message on my talk page about something on Wiki . But still I want to be clear that ,Is there anything wrong that I have edited on my user page or may be anything else ? Just tell me the wrong one I have done ....because I just wanna be clear so that again in future I'll not repeat that. Thanks. Regards-Tanisha priyadarshini (talk) 12:05, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

@Tanisha priyadarshini: Hi! No. Not at all. I just wanted to introduce a few concepts about wikipedia to you Please feel free to contact me if you have any question or doubt about wikipedia. See you around :) —usernamekiran (talk) 23:50, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks for your response. {Medical cases chart} in marathi wiki mr:२०२० मधील महाराष्ट्रातील कोरोना विषाणू उद्रेक has some Bug and it is reported on phabricator for resolution, Please help to for faster resolution.--. Shlok _{talk .} 11:39, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

@Sachinvenga: Hi. Sorry for the delayed reply. I'm currently on mobile. I will look into it in one or two days. —usernamekiran (talk) 20:16, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Anju Kurian

In this edit to Anju Kurian, your edit summary "DOB is unnecessary for short description" isn't helpful. It doesn't matter whether a DOB is necessary; the only question is whether DOB might be useful to help someone distinguish between two people with similar names. If someone is searching on Wikipedia for an actor named "Anju", having some idea of DOB might be helpful to distinguish between any of the subjects listed at Anju #People. --RexxS (talk) 23:13, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

@RexxS: Hi. There is currently only one Anju Kurian. So "indian actress" is more than enough to distinguish her, thats why I think DOB is unnecssary in this case. Its not like we are talking about John Smith. There are 10 cricketers, 12 military persons, 3 criminals, and many of everything else. But if you think DOB should be added, please feel free to do so. Regards, —usernamekiran (talk) 23:35, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Not everyone searching knows the full name. When somebody searches Wikipedia on a mobile phone and types "Anju" they are offered multiple pages to pick from, including:

• Anju (actress) Indian film actress
• Anju Kurian Indian film actress
• Anju Aravind actress
• Anju Mahendru Indian actress
• Anjum Fakih Indian television actress and model

The mobile interface adds the short description to each in order to help them spot the article they want. That is the principal use for short descriptions on Wikipedia.

If they are looking for an Indian film actress called "Anju", the present short descriptions are inadequate to distinguish between them. It can therefore only be helpful to have further information in the short description, and that is why I believe you were wrong to revert for the reason you gave. Hope that's clearer for you. --RexxS (talk) 00:01, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

@RexxS: yeah, I didnt think about it that way. You are right. —usernamekiran (talk) 00:11, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Sorry if those notices were duplicated, but I did look and couldn't find any earlier alerts or notices

Are you sure you got them? Because you aren't "aware" until they've been placed on your talk page unless you've been involved in a discussion of the sanctions at AE or ANI/AN or have been sanctioned, all in the past year. Doug Weller talk 08:35, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi Doug. Sorry for the confusion. What I meant was, I am aware the sanctions exist, and I am a little bit familiar with them. Whenever I am bored, and not in the mood of editing enwiki, or even reading it; I tend to read other namespaces. Mostly old policy related RFCs, or old RFAs, essays (mostly humorous ones)(but never arbcom cases, i never understood it). And this sanction notice is posted on talkpage of articles that come under them, and on many user talkpages. I read Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions something like an year ago or two. Also I am not using computer to edit wikipedia since last 7-8 months, so my editing is mostly gnome-ish, and not much substantial. And I also intentionally avoid editing articles that I consider controversial (whether or not under sanctions). Hence there was no notice posted on my talkpage yet. Also, I have never been involved in a discussion of the sanctions at AE or ANI/AN or have never been sanctioned :) —usernamekiran (talk) 09:10, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Don't worry about it, when I give these I try to give them even-handedly, preferably without knowing anything other than that the editor has edited in the area. In your case it certainly "does not imply", but when I give it to some people, well, you can imagine what I might be thinking. Doug Weller talk 09:16, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Need Review !

Can you please Review my draft ? Draft:THE SAINT AND THE MOUSE ! advance thanks .RegardsTanisha priyadarshini (talk) 05:51, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

@Tanisha priyadarshini: Hello. Draft:THE SAINT AND THE MOUSE ! is currently entirely plot summary. Kindly go through notability guidelines for books. You will find all the answers to your questions there. If you still have any question/doubts after reading it, feel free to ask me :)

Regards, —usernamekiran (talk) 06:02, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

So, Can I publish it or submit it after making some changes there?Tanisha priyadarshini (talk) 06:20, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

@Tanisha priyadarshini: The book fails all the criteria listed at WP:BOOKCRIT. If you publish it, someone will move it back to draftspace; and if you submit it, it will not get approved. Kindly read WP:BOOKCRIT. —usernamekiran (talk) 06:40, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

So, you mean I can't publish it as I referred a book which doesn't refer the criteria of WP:BOOKCRIT ? Tanisha priyadarshini (talk) 06:48, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

@Tanisha priyadarshini: Isnt it the same book that the article is about? —usernamekiran (talk) 06:52, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Actually the article I mean the story was picked just from a part of the book but the whole book is not about it. Tanisha priyadarshini (talk) 14:52, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

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You revived a lot of broken-ness in this edit. :( DMacks (talk) 07:26, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

@DMacks:Sorry, but there were lots of problematic edits. I was not sure which version to pick. And I am still unable to edit, too many edit conflicts. Maybe I will wait for a day, and then clean-up the article. It is 1PM in India currently, as the news spreads, a lot people/fans will be reading/editing the article. I think for 12 hours more from now. Maybe I will try after 3-4 hours from now. But because of the lockdown, everybody would be online. —usernamekiran (talk) 07:31, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

No worries. The ton of {{ec}} are really annoying. The article is semi-protected, so at least IPs and newbie-accounts won't be involved. DMacks (talk) 07:33, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

@DMacks: Yeah, but the article is still being heavily edited, and even though some are auto-con, they are sort of inexperienced. See you around :) —usernamekiran (talk) 07:35, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

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time off talkpages, and signatures

Hello everyone.
I recently found about the tragedy of Ronhjones. Even though me, and Ron rarely interacted, the incident kind of shook me. Some other editors, and/or signatures are reminding me of Ron, and hence of the incident.

Even though I am not actively editing these days, I have always been actively watching the watchlist, and keeping an eye out for random stuff. But till I get Ron's incident out of my head, I will not be watching any talkpages (main, WP, users, and other TPs). However I will be watching any page where there are no conversations/signatures. That also means I will be off from AfD, SPI, PERM, and all sort of noticeboards as well. Thank you. —usernamekiran (talk) 21:58, 4 May 2020 (UTC)