User talk:Nichalp/Archive8

Cherrapunji

Re your article on Cherrapunji: do you know the month in which Cherrapunji had it's maximum amount of rainfall? UkPaolo 12:32, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

July 1861  =Nichalp (Talk)= 12:34, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

Sure :-)

Not a problem... I'm flat out at work today though. - Ta bu shi da yu 23:34, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Great

It's great to see Mumbai on the main page. The image of the Gateway of India is truly impressive. -- Sundar (talk · contribs) 06:05, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

I'd asked Raul to feaure Mumbai on the main page as today is the official date for the monsoons to hit the city.  =Nichalp (Talk)= 06:30, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

...and this justifies that. -- Sundar (talk · contribs) 06:37, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations on Mumbai being featured on the Main Page. --221.128.145.192 06:41, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you  =Nichalp (Talk)= 06:46, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

Indian maps

Hi, Nichalp, Thanks for your maps (Image:Indiatemperaturetemp.png, Image:India-naturalhazards-map.png, Image:India-geology-map.png...) but could you please do them in a greater size like Image:Indiahills.png for instance, even bigger would be nice) and give a version without any text so we can adapt them in all the languages.

Many thanks in advance.

Nataraja 07:44, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sure will do.  =Nichalp (Talk)= 11:51, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

Did you know?

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Cherrapunji, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently-created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Driver's license points

Hello. I happened to see your question to another editor about driver's license points. In some places, if you are convicted of a driving violation, your license is given "points" (basically, demerits) based on the type of violation. If you accumulate a certain number of points, you may have your license suspended, or other actions could be taken. For an example, this page details the point system for North Carolina, USA (my home state). SWAdair | Talk 10:14, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for the information.  =Nichalp (Talk)= 12:25, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

Congrats

I am here to congratulate you for your efforts to the Mumbai article, in which you have done a major edit, to be featured yesterday.

Mr Tan 10:45, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you Mr Tan.  =Nichalp (Talk)= 12:25, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your support

Thank you for supporting my candidacy for administrator. Kelly Martin 14:43, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

Your welcome  =Nichalp (Talk)= 14:49, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

Did you know?

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Acacio Gabriel Viegas, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently-created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Barnstar

Wow, thank you. I hope to keep working with you, on more India related and wikipedia articles with several excellent FA's to come :-) (I am warning you before hand, that I mean several) --IMpbt 14:46, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

rail history

Thanks for the tip about .png. I have more history from Brereton's book, but probably too much for this article. I have put another railway picture at Robert Maitland Brereton . - Op. Deo 16:34, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion about using Commons for pictures. I shall think about this. However at the moment I am concentrating solely on en.wikipedia. Since the image is PD there is nothing to stop another person placing it in Commons if they need to have it there. - Op. Deo 07:47, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

FARC

Just wondering if you'd seen this? Filiocht | Blarneyman 12:30, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

No, I wasn't aware. Thanks for pointing this out to me.  =Nichalp (Talk)= 15:18, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

Need Advice on Mr Tan

Hi - I've seen you here and there on forum pages and Vfd, but today I was lurking on the RfC for the above Mr Tan, and noticed you claim a lot of experience with him. so...

• I wonder if you would be so kind (I'm new to Wikipolitics, only recently making substantial changes) to look in on my TALKS with him on Tsushima Strait and tender me some advice. Here are quick links My talk (Article 11) and His Talk (Article 85). Reverting will probably escallate the situation, so I left that for another. (I don't know how short of a Ctrl-A... Ctrl-V cut and paste, but this has cost (a lot of) time I could have been researching or writing.) Part of me wonders if I should show him a Polack is far more stubborn than an any Chinaman that ever lived, but THAT would be juvenile. He does seem to bring one's blood pressure up - like dealing with my teens! Specific input on: How to Revert, How to Cry Vandal, and How to Ask for intervention, et al would be appreciated. I'm going to add something to the RfC as he just left me another message. Private comments on email are fine.
  • Just blot this out so it has a short shelf life: fabartus@GET LOST LINKBOTS.net... (comcast) Thanks Frank Fabartus 15:11, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Ok, Thanks - I just echoed the above in the Rfc on Mr Tan. His last communication is pretty hardline, and it's frankly not worth our time! I'll be using summer productively (it's coming up on Noon for me) for gardening and such, but will check back when I take a break. He's prety much killed my morning research time window! Fabartus 15:33, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

One, the map is ambiguous and Mr Tan does have a point regarding its ambiguity. I too have a problem with the map and the article text. It took me a while to figure out that the green part was an island. The colour black used is misleading. Next, if the straight is between Japan and Korea (from what I glean); why does the island come into the picture? Is the straight between the island and another land body? This map is not necessary. However I am willing to make a map to sort out your debate provided you clarify the above. Secondly, ad hominem attacks are a strict no-no: See Wikipedia:No personal attacks. I'll reply the requested stuff by email.  =Nichalp (Talk)= 19:10, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

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If I can just upload over the old file there is no problem with the Map CopyRight as I discussed in the talk. Jon says removing it and building a new 'Pic' will only take a few minutes.

He's saved the source file in some format that easy to manipulate for future changes for the Battle of Tsushima, as soon as I figure out what to do therein. The actual battle took place a tad north of the northern island.

btw - Jon can render the black you mentioned above into a nice blue ocean if you like... it's a fill operation which takes about three seconds these days. The question comes down to proprieties, and proper procedures. What say you? (Say the word, and we can upload and save it as '-2' or something.)

The problem I ran into was this laptop didn't want to process the map - I had to go to my archieve computer up in the hot third floor attic office to bypass the wireless hardware. OTOH, I probably should have just uploaded from 'Jons' laptop, but I'd imposed enough! We'll fix it by evening Boston time, if not sooner. Just confirm I can overwrite it safely.

btw - Good Morning. I'm going to finish an edit and get to bed!Fabartus 06:18, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• • Ok, I sayz woozily, bemusedly! Watch out for the rising sun, by all means! <:) Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_%28container%29 (which is evidently penance for my first Vfd nomination (Drum Wrench)) and comment, please. Fabartus 06:34, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Tuesday pm:

The full http-addy was because I have a paper memory - it was in the cut buffer, and I'm starting a list of articles I've worked on on my user page as a self-organizational measure. It's easy to tag such with a following descriptor, or truncate to inside the doubled squared braces... you were sortof caught in the middle of "rushed wanting to get to bed" feeling, while not yet landing the cut buffer. Even I sleep once in a while - if I don't the old lady gets cranky and yells. In a word, I was lazy.

I CREATED an account on the commons yesterday 'Fabartus2', confused over why it wouldn't take my wikien-name... that should be speedy deleted as I took your prompting as license to create fabartus there a few minutes back. I thought we'd done the upload to the commons, but evidently (I conjecture) the uplink in the American (Toolbar) wikiEncy server put me into a different place than the help article-link I'd used when having the upload problem. I'll have to track that down again, as there is a different path. Perhaps you should enveigle the folks on this side of the big pond to add both upload options to the toolbar??? Above my paygrade. Finding the upload instructions was several web-pages deep, and I frankly don't remember how I started that path; If I had to guess... Help on the same toolbar.

I see in the above that you're wearing a hat that suggests Rail-fiend - RU a model railroad and railroad enthusiast, or were those mentions purely editorial? Jon and I HO some, tho' I think my NMRRA membership lapsed last fall. We're in a new home and need to add little things like walls and shelving, et al before we can get back into a MRR in whatever basement space is left over. One reason I wanted a diff house... it had an attic that was 'ready to go' except for minor wiring projects.

wrt style issues like the use of bold you commented upon, you acedemics will probably chide me, but I emphasize based on Modern tools, not rules. At the least, it helps me compose so that I keep the article flow and what's important straight. If someone with more than my two college courses in english (Both Lit.) wants to go groom things, its their time. I advance-placed out of three others, iirc, and neither US science or Engineering tracks aren't into heavy paper compositions - mainly just laboratory reports. In any event, I'll probably omit a lot of that soon just by composing off line. See Manchurian Railway for another your likely to dislike for emphasis. (I lifted the maps there too.) This will probably need to be merged with the CER article I found as I was finishing that edit, or perhaps not. The thing that bothers me is the huge extant libraries that are being obfusticated by modern politically correct nomenclature. Both articles are barren and need detail, and I wonder whether the mutual referencing and focus of each on their own historic period isn't more appropo. I'm buried by the issue in dealing with the Russo-Japanese war. See 'Talk' ParaHeading-2 for just a partial list of references I'm using therein, and picked up three new winners and a couple of other good side refs today as well. (Note - Mr Tan had undone my first commitment to the project I've only half researched. Those edits were the day I decided to enlist, instead of piddling around now and again with small corrections.)

(BTW-How do I make the direct link to the talk section above using Sq-braces?)

• • The Naming matter really came home when I noticed a mergist apparently didn't understand the difference between a municipality and a regional sub-district administered by the sub-provincial seat 40+ miles away. I refer to Lushun and Dalian - see my tracks in history. So the question is - has there been an RfC on colonial naming that I can puruse? Or should we perhaps suggest one be held. This multiple naming is not an issue that will go away, esp. in Asia artys.

I am strongly contemplating dusting off my programming skills so I can WYSIWYG compose back and forth with the Wiki-Markup Language, but that's only a dream at this juncture. My real problem is that the default font size is a trifle difficult to my bi-focaled aging eyes. Such a pair of filter programs (In Vs Out) could have switches to strip such emphasis out easily enough, and provide a better way of editing to boot as I can control the font size. At least I won't get confused trying to remember what window is something I don't want to change yet, or which links in the older edit preview led me to whatever factoid I'm currently fixing!... with requisite backups to the original article. But I've learned to do that in another explorer window, so it's not urgent, save for the nagging issue with the too small font. I wish for a spell checker too, tho' I ran across a reference yesterday pursuing the upload that I'll track down for that to at least try. Jon got up a minute ago from a nap he needed badly, so I'll turn him loose on fixing the copyright.

Lastly, Mr Tan wrote this morning and mentioned that he's only a kid - 14-15 y.o., so I wrote him back, made nice and think I'll suggest he work together on some stuff with my two boys. They both need practice writing. I'm going to offer to send him a CDROM I got a few years ago on Middle School Grammer, which of course my guys are too good to bother with. Could make for an interesting summer! Thanks fer holdin me hand! Fabartus 19:18, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Rabbit and pork

It's cockney rhyming slang for "talk"! Nothing more complicated than showing off my London roots... Cheers, smoddy 20:14, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm not back as a regular contributor, but just stopping by, hopefully to rewrite the Cold War article. In the meantime, though, I'm just cleaning up some of the messes left by Trey Stone. 172 06:35, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Indian Railways inuse?

Hi Nichalp. Is Indian Railways still {{inuse}}? -- Sundar (talk · contribs) 12:16, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

No, I forgot to release it.  =Nichalp (Talk)=

All those figures need a as of date reference Nick! Probably should cite according to as well. Fabartus 19:22, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I tend to add references, external links and images only after I finish the completion of my article.  =Nichalp (Talk)= 06:31, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

FAs

Excellent work on your two new FAs. I enjoyed reading them. 172 17:54, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you  =Nichalp (Talk)= 17:56, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

Congrats on the two new FA's --IMpbt 21:01, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you Pradeep  =Nichalp (Talk)= 06:30, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

FARC suggestion

I've propsed a possible solution to the FARC issue. Please comment if you get a chance. Thanks. --Spangineer (háblame) 18:04, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for informing me, I've shared my views.  =Nichalp (Talk)= 06:30, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

My first edit

I really thank you for remembering me and drawing my attention to my first edit: something I had pasted right from my desktop. It has been my endevour to improve from the very beginning, and I am still trying to improve. Anyway...and, sure, I have always watched great improvements in articles under India COTW, and Indian Railways has emerged beautifully. I think it has all the potentials to migrate to the status of a featured article. Your User Page is looking dazzling.--Bhadani 15:58, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for the comments.  =Nichalp (Talk)= 17:34, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Your recent message

Nichalp,

Thank you for your recent message. You indicated that my images are liable to be deleted because they are "not licenced under a Free one". I'm afraid I don't quite understand what you mean. Could you also please specify which article and which images you are talking about, since I contribute to many articles and have uploaded many images here. AreJay 22:05, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Images on the Bangalore page: Image:Soudha.jpg; Image:Bangalore HighCourt.jpg; Your upload log. Strangely, the Bangalore images do not appear on your log. Regards,  =Nichalp (Talk)= 05:31, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Yes, it is strange..I'm not really sure why they don't appear in my log. I guess what I will do sometime today is release those two images under Creative Commons since both those photos were taken by me. Thanks! AreJay 14:25, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi Nichalp, I know this is a bit late, but I want to thank you for your support vote on my RFA. Thanks to everyone who has supported me, I am now an admin, and I have been using my powers to help further Wikipedia. Thanks! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 23:26, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Your welcome. I wish you could assist me on the Mandrake problem of mine. Not a problem though.  =Nichalp (Talk)= 05:32, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

MASM

I just noticed your topic at WP:RD, but since it was posted so long ago, I wasn't sure if you'd still be checking the page. Have you found something suitable? If not, I suggest you Google for MASM Win32 IDE (or similar), since the kind of software you're requesting sounds very similar to an IDE. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 01:22, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

re:Yahoo

I agree that it was very difficult to make sense of. But, it's been discussed many times over and has been decided that it can be made difficult for humans, but never easy for bots. This is even at the cost of some humans failing sometimes till we find alternatives. It's a conscious decision necessitated by rampant bots. In any case, we get another chance if we are not able to identify. -- Sundar (talk · contribs) 12:44, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

These are called captchas, which came out of a meeting of the researchers at CMU and Udi Manber, then Chief Scientist at Yahoo!. There are now a variety of them. -- Sundar 13:00, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

I agree that some of them including the one you faced are really tough. I'll convey your feedback to the concerned people. -- Sundar 03:34, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks  =Nichalp (Talk)= 11:29, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

Oops! One more of that kind. Actually, the developer feels that most people are able to identify most often in the first attempt. In rare instances, people will encounter such tougher ones. Perhaps, you are being bucket tested with a planned change. -- Sundar 13:10, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

That reads like Marathi, actually. :)) Jokes apart, I can recognise that as "V7eJ5F." Just wondering if the toughness varies between people. -- Sundar 13:46, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

Re: FARC

The problem here is that Only pages that do not adhere to the featured article criteria may be listed is clearly not being followed. Timewise and all that... that is not necessary. Whoever is doing the removal process should be checking with all the concerns before removing the FA status from the article. Not just counting votes. It should be the discretion whoever is finalizing the candidate to use clear judgment in removing the FA status. Just like closing nominations on WP:VFD. -- AllyUnion (talk) 15:29, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Furthermore, using the FA nomination for the article in the FARC nomination should be required so that people can see why it was nominated for FA status in the first place and what is it being caused for its denomination from FA status. -- AllyUnion (talk) 15:31, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Bhojpuri

I noticed you started the Bhojpuri article, so I was wondering how well you understood the language. I have a translation question or two that I would like to verify. Thanks. Guettarda 02:36, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I don't know Bhojpuri. I've heard it a few times and all I can say is that a few words are different, but not very difficult to understand from Hindi. I'd just created a stub as there was a red link. Regards,  =Nichalp (Talk)= 10:31, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I assume that Hindi and Bhojpuri are close enough (they call it Hindi in the Caribbean usually). There is a word used in politics in Trinidad and Guyana - apan jaat - which I have read is really aapna jaat (forgive my spelling). Apan jaat basically is used to mean "vote for your own kind" - vote for the Indian party because they are "your people", but I have heard that the original (Bhojpuri) word means something rather different. I was wondering if you knew. Thanks. Guettarda 14:54, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

If it means something else, then I really don't know. I'm sorry. You could ask around in Wikipedia Talk:Notice board for India-related topics. Not many watch that page though.  =Nichalp (Talk)= 14:59, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, I will try that. Do you know the word at all (or is it unrecognisabe due to our (and "our") attempts at transliteration? Guettarda 15:01, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Actually, I don't know the word.  =Nichalp (Talk)= 15:05, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I realised that when I saw your edit summary. Sorry. And thanks for your help. Guettarda 15:07, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support

Hi Nichalp! Thanks for supporting my RFA! Sjakkalle (Check!) 13:36, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Your welcome. :) =Nichalp «Talk»= 10:31, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Back again

Hi Nichalp, thanks for the message; no, I am not leaving Wikipedia yet - there are still a couple of articles I'm willing to work on - but my edits will (and have) decrease(d) somewhat because we might relocate to Germany next year and so, got to tend to a lot of things.

Anyway, I'm a bit refreshed now, and not troubled anymore (by Mr Tan), so I should be here for some time until the stress becomes too much for me to bear, or until we move to Germany, whichever comes first. See you around and cheers - JMBell° 21:36, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I can speak it quite well (at least that's what they tell me, though I don't know for sure :)). I'll still be contributing; we're not going to move until January anyway, so I'll still have time to contribute. And when we get there, I'll still be able to contribute, except if we don't get a connection or if my cousin decides to use my account for vandalism. Which he has done very often. :) Cheers - JMBell° 20:54, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Um, thanks!

I was a little surprised by your "friendly vandalism" of my user page, but it all seems to be for the best, so thanks! FreplySpang (talk) 16:56, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

No probs. Trying to make WP a less US centric place. =Nichalp «Talk»=

Indian Railways

• Food, internet etc are not included in the fare of first ac class except for rajadhani exp
• Southern railway filed an affidavit in Kerala high court in 2001 stating that Amritha Express is not named after matha Amrithanandamayi , as such it is not correct to put in wiki[edia that the train is named after amritananadamayi

Chess

Hello, Nichalp. I just discovered the Chess tournament site... pity we didn't see it before so we could have joined the tournament. :) Anyways, I'll take you up on your offer on a friendly game of chess. If you want, just drop me a note on my talk page. Just a warning, though: I will be travelling in a week or so, and a day of travelling = a day of no computer. Also, I'm not sure what my schedule will be once I finish travelling (I'm staying at a conference/session for 7 weeks)- so if you agree, I might need to request a few time extensions. However, I would do my best to move quickly and within the 24 hours that they set up. Thanks for understanding- looking forward to our game! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 17:57, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

How about now? Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk

Just created it. :) Go to Wikigames, click chess, and we have SC5 (Standard Chess Game 5). Do you want white or black? Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 18:27, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm just figuring this thing out, so bear with me... I believe all you have to do is edit the board and put your piece where you want it to be. And the instructions say to put down standard chess notation- I'll briefly describe it below:

For pawn movements, just put down position of where you want to move (ex: a4)

For pawn captures, put axb3 (pawn on column a captures piece on b3)

For other piece movements, use piece abbreviations followed by square you moved to (ex: bc8 for bishop to c8)... b=bishop, r=rook, kn= knight q= queen k=king

If more than one type of a piece can move to a location (for instance, two knights can both move to one square, put the column of which one you want) (ex: bKnd4)

OK, go ahead and move. :) Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 18:37, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sorry guys for butting in ... didn't know there was a chess on wikigames, thanx (I am very much at a beginner level)--IMpbt 18:39, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Your move. We don't have to finish it today... should we agree a max of 24 plus/minus 3 hrs per move, and I'll notify you if I need more time? Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 18:41, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, your turn now. Took me some time to make a link to edit our talk pages. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 18:53, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

exd4

Moved.

That's fine. The server was also done for a couple of hours... Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 20:28, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Your move. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 01:03, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Stress

No, not that sort of stress.

Which syllables are stressed in the words "Hindustan" and "Bharat"? — Chameleon 22:00, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Dharamsala Map

Hi,

I was wondering if you would be able to send me a blank version of one of your India provinces maps, one in which no province is highlighted, so I can fix up the map on Dharamsala. Thanks. ---User:Hottentot

Here you go: Image:India-states-map-blank.png =Nichalp «Talk»= 10:33, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the medallion, Nichalp. Believe it or not, I was thinking about giving that medallion [to you] at the very moment before I saw the one you gave me. :-) -- Sundar (talk · contribs) 04:06, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for the map! ---User:Hottentot