User talk:DuKot

Template:Current U.S Senators[edit]

While your ambition is much appreciated at Wikipedia, your template is very large and blocky; thus, it does not contribute much to Wikipedia articles. It has already been requested for deletion, an action which I agree with.

Please hold off adding this template to further senator's articles. --tomf688 (talk) 05:39, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)

Tag on Template:Tfd[edit]

I have not seen your handle around the recent dust-up about adding tags to template bodies, so I think it's possible that you might allow me to fill in some background for you. If you are already aware of all the issues, and have taken sides, please forgive me. It is your right to choose to be partisan. But on the offchance that you are not, I beg your indulgence as I recap the debate.

Netoholic has spoken strongly against templates which include other templates; he wrote a long opinion piece on the subject and tried to force it into policy over considerable objection, even over attempts by sympathizers to improve the opinion. I wrote a factual rebuttal to the opinion, to which he failed to respond -- directly.

In place of direct discourse, he has systematically nominated for deletion a series of templates which I created -- one of which I used in the text of my rebuttal, in fact. He has nominated both useful and foolish templates with an equal hand. In each case, he has insisted that the only proper way to perform such a nomination is to insert the {tfd} tag into the body of the nominated template. This is a bad idea in many cases, perhaps all. At the least, it creates exactly the sort of trouble he himself has spoken against.

My every attempt to reason with him have failed. He refuses to accept insertion of {tfd} into the nominated template's Talk page as a workable substitute for insertion into body. He is strident on the subject, upholding this principle with fervor. This is all the more surprising since he himself raised the issue of tag insertion last year.

I have nominated Template:Tfd itself for deletion, since it does more harm than good. Netoholic continues to insist -- and demonstrate -- that {tfd} must be included in the body of every template nominated, which leads inescapably to the conclusion that it must be included within {tfd} itself. In a perfect world, this would generate a {tfd} tag of infinite length, as every instance of {tfd} would include yet another instance. In practice, the MediaWiki engine prevents this (or so I assume; I shall not put it to the test, lest I be wrong). But, in accordance with stated and vigorously upheld procedure, I have inserted (directly, not by reference) the tag {tfd} into the body of Template:Tfd.

Please do not remove this tag. It is inserted in strict accordance with established procedure. If you think this is a bad idea, then I suggest you comment in the proper place for such comment. If you think the matter absurd, then I ask you to reflect on the evils inherent in reliance on authority over good common sense. Thank you. — Xiongtalk 18:15, 2005 Apr 5 (UTC)

template for U.S. federal representatives[edit]

Hi - I see you've created the generalized version of the template I've proposed. There's some discussion on this at Wikipedia_talk:Avoid_using_meta-templates#Templates for federal representatives by state which hasn't really converged to a consensus yet. Can you work on something else for a while pending a consensus on this? Feel free to join the discussion. Thanks -- Rick Block 20:26, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Images[edit]

Hi, just wanted to offer a few hints. First of all, you should note the source of your images (it looks like many of them were taken off of House websites, but I can't be sure). Second, you should be sure to tag them with licensing information; for example, you can put {{PD-USGov}} on public domain govt. photos. Thanks for all the contributions. Best, Meelar (talk) 19:33, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

OK, thanks. I've always found it easier to add when uploading, but do as you see best. Yours,Meelar (talk) 19:38, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

TFD subpages[edit]

Hi there. I noticed that you created a subpage for a TFD vote. While I appreciate your good-faith effort to ensure that WP:TFD was clean, please don't make subpages for votes. The reason for this is that when the voting process is over, that page can't be deleted because it holds information in the history about who voted what.

No hard feelings :) Thanks for trying to improve WP:TFD! If TFD ever gets big enough to switch to subpages, then you can feel free to make as many as you want :) See you around! -Frazzydee|✍ 01:05, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Why did you link to an archive? This causes inconsistency in the log. -Frazzydee|✍ 18:09, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Template:Current U.S. Senator[edit]

Well, considering that the consensus appears to be keep, changing my vote is moot. The smaller text and columns make the template less obtrusive, but I still think the colors make it look rather unpolished and are unnecessarily redundant, but c'est la vie. older≠wiser 01:20, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

Speedy deletions[edit]

Please check the grounds for speedily deleting an article: Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:34, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Lists of Stalinists[edit]

Sorry, but I cannot find any list or category for Stalinists TDC 23:23, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)

I am having a problem here and am feeling like an idiot. What I want to do is place a template with lists and categories similar to the other political subsets, but I am having formatting issues. TDC 23:31, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)

Since the category you referred to does not seem to exist, could you clarify your vote? Gazpacho 01:45, 3 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Family Ties[edit]

Um, why did you revert me without discussion? The page, quite frankly, looks ugly now with that picture just dangling there at the bottom. Mike H 20:06, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

No problem. The picture can go back if more stuff is written on the show. As it is now, though, there's just no space for it. Mike H 22:34, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

Ranking[edit]

Personaly, I like the idea, however I had a simmilar suggestion that failed. People dont want ranking primarily because of the prospective abuse. I personaly dont agree. Cat ^chi? 10:18, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ranks look fun. One hint is that you might like to use forward slashes (/) for your subpages. There's a couple of technical advantages, as the software recognises them as subpages. — Matt Crypto 15:48, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Image:Chandra Levy.jpg[edit]

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rfd on redirects for Congressional Delegation templates[edit]

I created 2 redirects to fix broken links on the templates and these are now in Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion#June 5. Since you put these templates together, I wanted to let you know. NoSeptember ^(talk) 21:20, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

India images[edit]

Works of the Indian government is not in Public Domain. Please do not assume this. The Copyright Act 1957 copyrights Indian Govt. works for sixty years. Also, the Rail image is a .gif format, unsuitable for Wikipedia. =Nichalp (Talk)= 06:43, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikiproject Indian states[edit]

Nice Kerala portal. You might be interested in conforming Kerala-locations to Wikipedia:Wikiproject Indian states and Wikipedia:Wikiproject Indian cities. Thanks. =Nichalp «Talk»= 07:40, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

Wilson Image[edit]

File:Plame and Wilson.JPG

What's the source for this image? Can you note that and the copyright status on the page?

Molotov cocktail[edit]

Hi DuKot,

Whilst I have no problem with you replacing the image on the Molotov cocktail page (the painting was far from perfect), the image used to replace it does have quite a few problems. The main one being that you haven't given it a copyright tag. Fortunately it has a source link, but that page at the CQ Press suggests that all the content is copyright. Also, although it was probably accidental, it wasn't the best idea to use the same filename as the image on Commons. Fortunately the only other place the Commons image appears to be being used is on the Dutch Wiki, so the shadowing problem isn't too critical. -- Solipsist 08:12, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure what you mean by replacing an older image. There was no image before in the Molotov cocktail page. I dont see any other image also in the history of the Image:Molotov_cocktail.jpg page. Please advise. --DuKot 15:40, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You're right - it looks like a coincidence. It was an image I added two days ago, but it looks like it was someone else who reverted it. You can find it if you back up two steps in the edit history - except it is confusing, since it now shows up as the image you added, since the Commons version is now shadowed. Its not much of a problem if the new image can be tagged with a free license. I'd also agree with Gfad1s revert comment that the bottle-face on the other image is a little odd. -- Solipsist 16:16, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Now it makes sense --DuKot 22:13, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

MyDD icon[edit]

Hi. I noticed that your upload of the MyDD icon lacks copyright notices. I'm guessing it'd be {{fairuse}} on the MyDD page. Guettarda 14:18, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

delegations[edit]

You should merge the "current" delegation (by state) pages with the list of past delegations for that state. We don't need two separate pages. -- Netoholic @ 07:20, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. To find current members in the list of all delegations you have to browse all the way down. This is a much cumbersome process for a person who would be trying to find the currentnly serving members of the U.S. congress. Anyways in the page Current state delegation there is link to past delegations. So if somebody is looking for that information it is already available. --DuKot 08:27, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. Congressional Delegation from Michigan[edit]

This currently is in Category:Government of Michigan, but that is incorrect. The U.S. Congressional delegation has no official role in state government. I don't understand how the template works to be able to change it. A more appropriate single category would be Category:Michigan politicians or else it should go in the more specific categories for Category:U.S. Representatives from Michigan and Category:United States Senators from Michigan. older ≠ wiser 16:23, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kerala Catergory[edit]

I found you very active in Kerala related Articles. I thought, I can have your opinion. Do you think there are lot of Articles in Category:Kerala. ? I think Category:Kerala should contain only sub categories regarding Kerala, just like Category:India.

btw, Is there any wiki group for Kerala editors ? --Soft coder^Talk 08:50, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

FAC[edit]

Hi DuKot, I wanted to let you know that the Political integration of India is now FAC. I hope you will have some time to consider the work and give it an up or down vote. Please don't consider this soliciting - I'm requesting your participation. Thanks! Rama's Arrow 04:31, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Naming convention for districts[edit]

A couple of days back you posted a question on India portal. I found the answer to question on the WikiProject Indian districts.

"In many cases a district and its headquarters share the same name. For example, Mysore is the name of a city, district and division. For such cases, contents of the district should be added to Mysore district and the division should be added to Mysore division. Thus Mysore will be having only matter relating to the city. However all three should be linked in the respective articles.

Please note: the word district should be with a small d."

- Ganeshk (talk) 00:16, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Userbox for all IITians[edit]

We need to consolidate all IITians in one category. Please add this userbox. {{user iit}}

This user attends or attended the Indian Institute of Technology.

deeptrivia (talk) 14:29, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:Indian_Railways_Map.gif[edit]

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Lets bring all Kerala Wikipedians under one list[edit]

Hello! I've created a template Template:User KERALA wiki as well as a category, Category:Kerala_Wikipedians in an effort to bring together all the Kerala Wikipedians. I believe there are no such existing categories. So, please add either the template (which will automatically add the category) or the category to your userpage. Thanks! thunderboltz 06:01, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Huh?[edit]

I think there's a bit of confusion here regarding Template:Current U.S. Senators. I made the template font smaller, not bigger. I'm reverting because I think you made a simple error in judgement. In case I'm wrong, please hold off on reverting back and let's discuss the matter on the template's talk page instead, okay? As it's a fairly well used template, a revert "war" would be a very, very bad thing. See you around! Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 07:02, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm using Internet Explorer (6.0) and the default skin. I can't imagine why it's appearing bigger for you... actually, maybe that's why the template was too big in the first place--because you didn't realize that it looked weird to other people. Anyways, I looked at the talk page, and it seems that many other people had the same problem I did with the older version of the template, so I think my version probably will end up helping out more people. Your thoughts? Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 07:10, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's a good point. I'm getting tired and wanting sleep, so I'm not going to do it tonight, but a poll is a very good idea. We could post something on the Village Pump about it (to draw attention from all sorts of browsers) and see which template people like best. Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 07:15, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have re-done the template, using xx-small instead of the apparently made-up xxx-small. Mind taking a look and seeing if you like it? Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 04:36, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image Tagging for Image:Kerala_thumb.jpg[edit]

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Image copyright problem with Image:Kottayammap.jpg[edit]

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Image Tagging Image:NSG1.jpg[edit]

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Review request[edit]

Hi! I've put the Kochi article up for a peer review. Could you please see the article and post your comments here?
Thanks!-- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu_Joseph |TALK} 10:15, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Use पूर्णविराम ( । ) instead of a period (.) for ending statements. The पूर्णविराम, semicolon, colon and dash (but not comma) must come after one space after the word to prevent ambiguity. Use the international form of the Hindu-Arabic numerals (1,2,3 instead of १,२,३), as used by the Constitution and the Government of India (even for Hindi). There is no need to use the हलन्त at the end of Sanskrit words wherever it occurs. Hence, prefer: संसद over संसद्; अथर्वन over अथर्वन्. Use the proper quotation marks “” from the Insert toolbox, not "". Write dates as 2 मई 2006 (ईसवी or ईसापूर्व). Write time as 3:45 pm. Separate common suffix-words like शास्त्र, विज्ञान, ज्ञान with a hyphen. Thus: रसायन-शास्त्र. For most others, leave both the words of the noun-cluster free. Combine them into one word only if it is very common to do so. Thus: सामवेद.

The use of ज़ for the en:voiced alveolar fricative (/z/, as in zoo, rose) is fundamentally wrong. Its nearest counterpart is the en:voiceless alveolar fricative /s/ (as in sea), and not Hindi ज (en:voiced palatal plosive). Hence, it is suggested and recommended that for the sound /z/, whether it comes in English (etc.) spellings (z) for while pronunciation otherwise, should be transcribed as स़ (स with a dot below, available in the Insert toolbox). Hence: Reason रीस़न, not रीज़न ; Roses रोस़ेस़, not रोज़ेज़. But common Hindi words borrowed from Persian/Arabic (so-called Urdu words) are allowed to continue with ज़ spelling. Thus: ज़रा, नज़र, तर्ज़. The en:voiced postalveolar fricative (/ʒ/ as in treasure), inexistent in Hindi, can similarly be transcribed with श़. Thus: treasure ट्रॅश़र. The nukta (dot) available in the Insert toolbox can be combined with various consonants to suggest a more exact phonetic devanagari rendering of foreign sounds. E.g., since phonetically, English Think and this are not equal to थिंक and दिस, a better transcription could be थ़िंक and द़िस. Please take care of the dot below in so-called Urdu words, otherwise the Hindi spelling is deemed incorrect.

For the following English vowels met, mate, mat, transcribe as मॅट (short vowel), मेट (not मेइट), मैट (not मॅट, as popular in Marathi). However in contemporary Hindi and here, it is acceptable to use ए instead of ऍ. Thus: अमेरिका is more popular than अमॅरिका. For cot, coat, caught, transcribe as कॉट, कोट, कॉट (not कौट). Transcribe English /t/ and /d/ as ट and ड.

Use half-न before त, थ, द, ध, न, instead of anuswaar अं. Use half-म before प, फ, ब, भ, म. Use the anuswaar before all the rest of the consonants (not half-ङ, ञ, ण). If the मात्रा is not above the alphabet, use chandra-bindu, but only for nasalization. Thus: अन्दर, not अंदर ; अन्त, not अंत ; हिन्दी, not हिंदी ; सम्भव, not संभव ; पंचमी, not पञ्चमी ; अंडा, not अण्डा ; कंठ, not कण्ठ ; लैंड, not लैण्ड ; आँख, not आंख. However, both forms are acceptable in contemporary Hindi as well as here; the prec. are just recommendations.

When proceded by another vowel, use the pure vowels instead of य (unless the य is clearly articulated while pronouncing). Thus : जाएँ, not जायें (not जावें) ; आएगा, not आयेगा . However, both forms are acceptable in contemporary Hindi as well as here.

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Thank you,

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TfD nomination of Template:Blue Collar Comedy[edit]

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Pradip Somasundaran[edit]

This is a message to all Category:Kerala Wikipedians

I want your opinion on this particular person Pradip Somasundaran. He claims to be a famous singer in Kerala. Now being a Malayalee, I have not heard of this person before, so I wonder whether or not you have heard of him before and set this issue straight. If so, then please let your opinion be counted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pradip Somasundaran. Please note that by voicing your opinion as a Malayalee/Keralite will add more weight to your words.

Many Thanks --Ageo020 21:42, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Kerala Portal[edit]

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Energy portal review[edit]

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Invite to WikiConference India 2011[edit]

Hi DuKot,

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But the activities start now with the 100 day long WikiOutreach.

As you are part of WikiProject India community we invite you to be there for conference and share your experience. Thank you for your contributions.

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