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Thanks for your interest in article Lucknow, I have noticed you are adding unformated references, also blogs, videos, etc which don't constitute reliable source. You are also selectively removing some content from article which apparently is already tagged for citation while providing some citation for others, I see obvious POV in your edits. I appreciate your efforts on article, especially your GA drive for Lucknow. Hope we can work for betterment of the article.--Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider^tc_s 19:22, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider^tc_s 19:34, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I am sorry for that rude behaviour by again and again uploading same photo because it was my small brother who was using my id.he made all those photo chaos..he was adding those photos by removing yourss..I regret and have taken corrective measuress.ssoooo soorry..now i have locked my device and apps so he will not again ....sorryyy once again..please ansr ;) Twesh (talk) 18:27, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the Help and showing me right way :) Twesh (talk) 06:00, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! Edit summaries are a critical part of Wikipedia's collaborative editorial process. Jojalozzo 17:09, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Right away, sir!Wikiboy2364 (talk) 17:13, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please use edit summaries when editing all pages (e.g Siege of Lucknow), not just Lucknow. Jojalozzo 23:03, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• ok that was the last time i didn't use summaries. I'll give you no reason to complain the next time.Wikiboy2364 (talk) 23:11, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I am very sorry, but there is work I need to do off-wiki in the next couple of weeks. I will not have time to copyedit an article of that length until at least mid-August. I may be able to do it then if you don't mind waiting that long. A. Parrot (talk) 00:42, 29 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment:sure,why not.i understand your situation.its ok.Wikiboy2364 (talk) 00:45, 29 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I saw your request for copyediting on Lucknow, and I went ahead with Linkrot and other fixes, but I am at Wikimania 2014 in London, so I cannot do copyediting. I suggest that you eliminate all the green Wikilinks in the article. Good luck with your Featured Article application, after the copyediting. The GOCE needs more workers, so be patient with us for such a long article. (6741 words)--DThomsen8 (talk) 20:53, 4 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Consider changing date formats, and delete the {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2014}} tag when you finish.--DThomsen8 (talk) 21:01, 4 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment:Thank you DThomsen8 for your much needed help. I am very grateful that you stepped forward to work on the page when you must have been busy with the conference. However i should tell you that i'm not a Wiki-Veteran so i have some queries about your suggestions.

• By changing date formats, if you meant date formats in reference links, i have done that. If there is something more, please tell me about it.

No such dates exist now, and the tag has been removed. Dates would be 4 July 1776 instead of July 4, 1776.

• I will be thankful if you can elaborate what you meant by 'eliminate all the green Wikilinks in the article'. I can't quite understand where and what are the green wikilinks(all i can see are blue wikilinks).

When your preferences are set right, all Wikilinks that go through a forwarding link, a REDIRECT, are shown in green. For example, Lucknow District (green) should be Lucknow District (blue). See the difference in District vs. district? I don't remember the preference setting, but with this example, you should notice the line about the redirect if you click on the link and see the article.--DThomsen8 (talk) 19:06, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe it's a page render or browser issue or maybe the feature is not turned on in the preferences but i think i'm getting what you are trying to say. I should change the conventional wikilink (see this in editor box to get what i'm trying to say) format to text about the wikilink right? Wikiboy2364 (talk) 00:16, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And btw, best of luck for WikiMania. I wish i was there too.Wikiboy2364 (talk) 10:37, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Use colons rather than asterisks for indenting on talk pages, and, to be really fancy, learn about template:Outdent, opposite of indenting.--DThomsen8 (talk) 19:22, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I remember your copyedit request. I can start on August 13, not earlier. A. Parrot (talk) 18:22, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, ok and thank you Wikiboy2364 (talk) 20:51, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not remove citations or information sourced through citations simply because a link to a source is not working, as you did to Lucknow. Dead links should not be deleted. Instead, please repair or replace the link, if possible, and ensure properly sourced information is retained. Often, a live substitute link can be found. Links not used as references, notes or citations are not as important, such as those listed in the "External links" or "Further reading" sections, but bad links in those sections should also be fixed if possible. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. You may refer Wikipedia:Dead link for further details. Thanks. Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider^tc_s 13:53, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

3 years since i joined WP and still i learn new things everyday. Yes i removed some dead links because i could not find their alternative sources (although you found them). Also i replaced some dead links with substitute. Thanks for telling me about Web Archives. I will keep them in mind the next time i mend links.Wikiboy2364 (talk) 17:49, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

As per Wikipedia:Dead link , if you can't find any alternative of dead link you should just add {{dead link}} just before </ref>, so someone else may look into it and the source itself is not lost. And for me 8 years and still learning ;) --Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider^tc_s 18:11, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for starting WikiProject Lucknow. I wanted to do this for a long time, but didn't had time... So Thanks a lot again! Cheers!!! Martinian Leave a message! 08:57, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You're most welcome. The city deserved a dedicated WikiProject and i think it should have been started years ago. So finally i decided to step in :) Wikiboy2364 (talk) 20:00, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there! As you'll have seen, I've started the copyedit on Lucknow and I hope your pleased with the results so far. It will really help if you don't edit the article until I've finished. An edit conflict in the middle of what I'm doing requires a lot of effort to fix, which is why the banner is there at the top of the page. It will be finished by this time tomorrow—then it's all yours again! Cheers,  Philg88 ^♦talk 18:44, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad Philg88 is working on that. I'm afraid I didn't have the time or energy to copyedit the article as thoroughly as needed. I made one edit to it today before I saw Philg88's copyedit notice; I hope that didn't cause any problems. A. Parrot (talk) 22:46, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@A. Parrot: No problem, it was a class edit. I'm beginning to understand why this article has been sitting in the queue for so long. Still, I'll get there in the end. Best,  Philg88 ^♦talk 06:23, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I know, right @Philg88:? The prose needed to be worked on thoroughly, that's why i requested the guild to ce the article rather than taking it to an editor with Indian articles as his forte. Believe me, it was in worse condition before. I have worked a lot on its prose and references which also included complete restructuring. There were some paragraphs or lines which no matter how many times i edited, got reverted back. I hope it will not happen again with the guild and a lot of credible editors on board. Thanks. Wikiboy2364 (talk) 09:53, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OK, it's all done. Some minor problems may remain but I hope you agree that it's an improvement. Cheers,  Philg88 ^♦talk 20:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It is an improvement and i thank you for it. I can imagine how tedious the task must have been. Wikiboy2364 (talk) 05:57, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Lucknow you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of SNUGGUMS -- SNUGGUMS (talk) 22:00, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article Lucknow you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Lucknow for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of SNUGGUMS -- SNUGGUMS (talk) 03:42, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have reverted your re-nomination of the article. It is festered with the same formatting issues and it would be another quick-fail (I personally was going to do it). Please consider taking such a big article to WP:PR first. And the article is littered with unnecessary images inspite of having a gallery. Does not look encyclopedic at all, lest a Good article. —Indian:BIO · ^{[ ChitChat ]} 10:51, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi.Can you upload flights photo at Lucknow Airport.You can take the photo from Google images and upload in Airlines and destinations of the airport because I don't know how to upload a photo on a page.Please Help me.Thank you,

                       User:Devesh 4-2-2000 (talk) 12:05PM (IST)   — Preceding undated comment added 06:36, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply] 

Sorry Devesh but just any picture taken from Google Images can't be uploaded to a wikipedia page due to various copyright issues and access permissions. You can read about it here Wikipedia:Copyrights.

For a guide to uploading images, refer to this Wikipedia:Uploading images and Help:Introduction to uploading images/1. Happy Editing. Wikiboy2364 (talk) 18:23, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Sir,

I saw, recently you have edited page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhartendu_Academy_of_Dramatic_Arts, where you didn't write "Rajeev Jain" name not in Notable Alumni list. He is one of our notable alumni from drama school.

Sir, I was wondering if you can help me out to write page on Rajeev Jain, I have already written: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Rajeev_Jain, was thinking if you can help us out to make more interesting and readable. Rajeev Jain is also from Lucknow.

Regards,

Ramesh — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bhartendunatyaakademi (talk • contribs) 13:59, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atul_Srivastava

Delete, a handful of minor roles, but doesn't come close to WP:NACTOR in my view. I'm sympathetic to the argument that it's usually harder to find written information on Indian topics than Western ones, but when it's a BLP we're talking about, caution is called for. Subject must have played minor and supporting roles in various films and TV shows, but fails WP:NACTOR and WP:GNG. Mentioned only in passing in cited media articles (which themselves are mostly second-tier sources), and I couldn't locate anything more comprehensive.David 16:51, 7 September 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ManishSrivastava1 (talk • contribs)

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This month:

Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.

In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?

Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.

The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 01:44, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Lucknow you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period.
Dropping this note manually. Dunno why the bot didn't do it. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 09:10, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Have replied to some of your comments on GA review. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 11:41, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Its been many days since you pursued this GA. Do you plan to continue with this or what? We usually suggest to finish the GA review process in 7 days. But looks like you are off wiki since long. Please let me know what you plan to do. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 04:47, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The article Lucknow you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Lucknow for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Dharmadhyaksha -- Dharmadhyaksha (talk) 02:20, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This month:

In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.

Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)

With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{Wikipedia Requests}}. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying article=, category=, or wikiproject=, and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do {{Wikipedia Requests|category=Living people}}. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!

The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.

If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.

WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.

And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.

Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called projectindex. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!

• The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
• The WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. May I please know what prompted you to remove religion pie chart from article Lucknow ? Religion is certainly one of the characteristic features of demographics concerning a large city. Every other article like Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and so on and even articles of smaller Indian cities has a bar box of religion. If you had objection with the pie chart, you could have converted into bar box just like I did recently. Before you remove that again (which I think is likely), please do see the references mentioned in the religion bar box and then decide whether they are unreliable or good. Certainly, no source can be better than those which are from official govt. sites. I have mentioned even the instructions along with reference from govt. site if you find it confusing. Please take no offense and do consider my request. Do reply me on my talk page after reading this message. Have a cheerful day.Vibhss (talk) 10:56, 3 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, featuring the first screenshot of our new CollaborationKit software!

Harej (talk) 00:23, 25 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 04:57, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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This month, we discuss the new CollaborationKit extension. Here's an image as a teaser:

23:59, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

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I see that you're a Lucknowi/ite, more importantly, one of the major contributors to the article, Lucknow Metro. As a fellow major contributor, I want to ask, if you think that the article is ready to be nominated for GA status?
Regards, SshibumXZ (Talk) (Contributions). 16:34, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, with plans to renew work with a followup grant proposal to support finalising the deployment of CollaborationKit!

-— Isarra ༆ 21:26, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This month: WikiProject X: The resumption

Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!

-— Isarra ༆ 22:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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This month: A general update.

The current status of the project is as follows:

• Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
• I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the CollaborationKit extension.
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
  • If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself.
• Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per the workboard.

Until next time,

-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Vivek Agnihotri, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. ∯WBG^converse 07:35, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Kindly stop your irrational move of the airport title by adding the word International to the name. Going by your logic here, then London Heathrow Airport, Frankfurt Airport, Sydney Airport, Changi Airport, etc. have to be domestic airports. So the answer is no. Just because an airport is international, it does not automatically imply the addition of the International word to its title. Provide a source that explicitly states the renaming of the airport, and then open a requested move discussion. Until then, do not change the title without any rational. Since you have been repeatedly, unanimously changing the title, consider this your last warning. I will report you to admins if this repeats. — LeoFrank  ^Talk 04:14, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Lucknow Metro color has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 13:55, 10 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Lucknow Metro lines has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 13:55, 10 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Lucknow Metro stations has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 13:55, 10 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:S-line/Lucknow Metro left/Red Line has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 13:55, 10 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:S-line/Lucknow Metro right/Red Line has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 13:55, 10 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]