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Indian village stubs again

Hey there Sitush,

After a bit of a hiatus I'm starting to remove the 159 stuff from Indian village stubs again. I've got a question about naming. A few times I've come across villages with names like D.Velampalli, with no space after the period. Is that an error, or is there some kind of naming convention for the space to be omitted? If it's wrong, I'll start doing page moves as well.

Cheers, Reyk _YO! 09:04, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

@Reyk: sorry, I was not editing much for a couple of months. The spacing issue has cropped up from time to time at WT:INB. Some sources use it, some do not, some use both on the same page! That's Indian official sources etc, so it is a bit of a mess. I think the consensus was to add the space, mainly for reasons of legibility and because when the abbreviation is used it does in fact refer to a longer word that, if fully written, would definitely be spaced.

And before you ask, we're not always sure what the longer word should be! - Sitush (talk) 13:21, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Dona Bertarelli biography update

Hello Sitush, I think you've been a regular editor of Dona Bertarelli's biography and I have proposed some updates as it seems it's been quite some time since the page was updated. I work for Mrs Bertarelli as you can see from my user profile and am also a new user, so hope very much that I'm doing things in the right way. Would you be able to have a review of my comments and updates and let me have any feedback? Thanks so much, Mia

MiaNorcaro(talk)MiaNorcaro (talk) 16:43, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy Saturnalia

		Happy Saturnalia
		Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and troll-free. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:08, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:05, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

Hello Sitush: From high in the Canadian Arctic I hope you enjoy the holiday season, the Winter or Summer solstice, Quviahugvik, Eid, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah or even the Saturnalia, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Misplaced Pages. Cheers, CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 09:04, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Adapted from {{Season's Greetings}}

Ambalavasi

As you suggested the content have been moved to talk page of the article. Please add comments. पुष्पकः (talk) 19:40, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Reliability?

If Periya Puranam is not reliable and Thurston is not reliable , Mangalore university is not reliable. Who is reliable? A thousand lies won’t cover a truth. Grow up man Chekaun (talk) 12:37, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Periya is an ancient primary source; Edgar Thurston is not reliable per longstanding consensus of the Misplaced Pages community - he is one of the worst examples of amateur ethnologists of the Raj era. Not sure what your "Mangalore University" is referring to. - Sitush (talk) 12:43, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

All the historical things are realized only from ancient works, inscriptions and materials collected by archaeological excavations. Periya Puranam was written by Sekkizhar a minister of Chola Empire. You cannot say it is rubbish. Chekaun (talk) 13:56, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Read WP:PRIMARY. It isn't me that says it is unreliable, it is the Misplaced Pages community in general. - Sitush (talk) 14:50, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Vandalism in Channar (surname)

Hello, I'm Chekaun. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Channar(surname) have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help Desk. Thanks. Chekaun (talk) 13:06, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Do read Periya Puranam and learn some Tamil before editing unnecessarily Chekaun (talk) 13:08, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

See my reply to you above. And please do not call my edits vandalism, as you did in your revert. See WP:NOTVANDALISM. - Sitush (talk) 13:17, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Misplaced Pages, as you did at Channar (surname). Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Chekaun (talk) 13:25, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Read Periya Puranam. Get an English copy if you don’t know Tamil Chekaun (talk) 13:27, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

How many more times do I have to tell you that an ancient primary source such as the Periya is not reliable - I even linked to the reason why this is so in the preceding section here. You've just reverted me yet again and you're going to end up blocked and probably topic banned if you keep this up. You have made barely one edit worth retaining since you turned up and you're argumentative style here is not going to help matters. - Sitush (talk) 14:42, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

You have reinstated the Lulu Press book in that article, too, and that is something I've also explained on your talk page. Please read WP:SPS. At least one of the other sources that you have reinstated doesn't even mention the term - I gave my rationales in the edit summaries and, frankly, for someone who only started editing a couple of weeks ago, you seem to have a fairly decent grasp of templates etc and thus I suspect must know how edit summaries work (you have even used them yourself). - Sitush (talk) 14:48, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

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Edit war

It is applicable to you also. WP:DISENGAGE WP:CONTENT-DISPUTE Chekaun (talk) 15:09, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Adding caste names to people

Category 1 : People who are dead. the caste of such people can be added to the biography if the information is from a reliable source. please read User:Sitush/Common#Castelists . so on the basis of this fact i am going to attach caste names to those who are dead. i hope i am right?

category 2: caste is not equivalent to sexual orientation where a person can be gender fluid. caste is also not equivalent to religious belief which can change upon his/her wish. caste is an identity by birth which is unique for which there is no guidelines. also caste is not a private matter of an individual since it is used at nearly all places including jobs, marriage etc. hence mentioning caste identity of an individual from a reliable source is right and and fair. also please read Sitush/Common#Castelists in the article regarding amitabh bachaan there is no mention that he wants to hide his caste identity. the article talks about those surnames which do not indicate any particular caste and he has one such surname. so, i dont think that it is against wikipedia policy to mention caste of those individuals who are living and for which i have reliable sources. correct me if i am wrong. is there any wikipedia policy which specifically talks about "caste identity" which i should know about because Misplaced Pages:Biographies of living persons does not mention anything about caste. caste is an important identity to an individual and if there is a reliable source i believe it should be mentioned. please reply soon. NikhilPatelReal (talk) 15:27, 2 January 2019 (UTC)NikhilPatelReal