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WikiProject India Newsletter Volume V, Issue no. 1 - (June 2010)

Project News

WP:IND Newsletter is back! It's been nearly a year since the last edition, but we hope to bring out issues on a more regular basis now. The India Wikiproject was set up to increasing coverage of India-related topics on Wikipedia, and over the past few months the focus has been on improvingarticle quality.A number of the project'sfeatured articlesunderwentfeatured article reviewsover the past year. Of these,DarjeelingandFlag of Indiasurvived the review process, while the rest were demoted. During the same period,Gangtok,Harbhajan Singh,Darjeeling andMysorewere featured on the main page respectively on August 20, September 17, November 6 and December 29, 2009. Meanwhile, articles on topics as diverse asPolitical history of Mysore and Coorg (1565–1760),Marwari horseandIravanwere promoted as featured articles, and respectively appeared on the main page on March 25, May 17 and May 28, 2010. Consequently, the number of FA-class articles under the project's scope dropped from 67 in August 2009 to 63 in June 2010. The number ofgood articles,however, saw a more than 40% increase, from 91 to 130 during the same period, while the number offeatured listssaw a 33% increase from 12 to 16.

Due to the recent policy changes regarding unreferencedBiographies of Living People(BLPs), an effort was started in January 2010 to source all unreferenced BLPs coming under Wikiproject India. 1200 such articles were identified initially and more were added to the list later. Due to the sourcing effort, the number of Indian unreferenced BLPs is down to565currently. During February-April 2010, There was alarge scale disruptionofKeralarelated articles by aThrissurbased IP vandal. Editing from a dynamic IPBSNLconnection, the vandal changed dates of birth, death and ages of a number ofMalayalamandTamilfilm actors. Later he added a few international biographies to his list. He also marked some living people likeArvind Swamyas dead. A month long range block was imposed on his IP range two times and each time he came back to vandalise dates once the block expired. Currently the range has been blocked for three months till September 11, 2010.

What's New?
Current proposals and discussions
  • A discussion is underwayhereto reach a consensus regarding the use of Indian number names (lakh,croreetc.) in Wikipedia articles. Please participate and add your comments.
  • A discussion is in progressherein order to determine whether non-Western (including Indian) forms of classical music should be referred to by the nomenclature ofart musicinstead ofclassical music.Please participate and add your comments.
  • Watchlist theArticles for Deletions pagefor India related discussions. Opinions from more Indian Wikipedians are required in many of the discussions.

If you've just joined, add your name to theMembers section of WikiProject India.You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!

Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of thenext issue(Issue 2 – (July 2010)). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

Looking forward toward more contributions from you!
Complete To Do List
Signed...
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