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Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

About removing my edits

Don't remove my edit I gather that imformation.it's for to put some fact between both coutries.thank you ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by VinyS (talk • contribs) 06:04, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

VinyS That is content inflation without any sources. Also, it is not required on those pages. If you wish to add them gain consensus first and do not re-add them until you have one. It will be considered disruptive. Thanks. Adamgerber80 (talk) 14:15, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Some bubble tea for you!

Good work Bandhu. From what I have seen so far, you are doing a great work here with a cool head too. Thanks and keep it up. DBigXray 13:48, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

@DBigXray: I earnestly think the current system is broken and needs a new solution. Adamgerber80 (talk) 15:13, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

• Are you referring to the Wiki system or the Current BJP system ? :D--DBigXray 15:35, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

I am referring to the current Misplaced Pages system. For example, some of pages were content locked in the past 24 hours because everyone is claiming that their version is the correct WP:STATUSQUO. A page came out of a full lock to only go back into it. (I am not mentioning page names). And this is not the first time in the last 6 months where there have have been multiple WP:SPI, WP:ANI, WP:AE, WP:XFD and other forums. This has always been around but has intensified in the last year or so. An admin had suggested to only nominate a editor from either side to edit which sounds more reasonable now (did not at that time). Adamgerber80 (talk) 15:54, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

• ok, I Think both the Wiki and current BJP system (the latter more so ) needs improvements. Both are under attack. talking about the wiki system. Just today i came accross this warning on a user page Special:Diff/717600416. And I felt like wow! This is really a minefield now. Things were never good but this particular development is very troublesome. Shows that basically the things are not administrated the best way or the admins are just too stressed out or overloaded. anyway thats my assumption or opinion. I just recently returned to editing frequently after a long gap. Busy real life. Back in those days too problems happened but were still actively managed. I am still not uptodate with the latest happenings on ANI and recent important debates. Things are never perfect and there is constant improvement. If you do have specific suggestions it would be a good idea to list them somewhere on your userpage or subpage and other relevant noticeboards whenever a related discussion takes place. Seeing your efforts I really hope that you dont loose hope or stop contributing and remain optimistic and continue with the excellent cool head that you have been gifted with. Nothing is perfect, we work on whatever we have. --DBigXray 16:20, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Well, that minefield is what makes progress possible. When I first came on, the Kashmir conflict article said stuff like this:

Hari Singh, the maharaja of Kashmir, initially believed that by delaying his decision he could maintain the independence of Kashmir, but, caught up in a train of events that included a revolution among his Muslim subjects along the western borders of the state and the intervention of Pashtun tribesmen, he signed an instrument of accession on 25 October 1947 to the Indian union. This was the signal for intervention both by Pakistan, which considered the state to be a natural extension of Pakistan, and by India, which intended to confirm the act of accession.

On the one hand, the scholars say there was no coherent "Pakistan" in 1947. So we can't say "Pakistan" invaded Kashmir. But here we are. There was a coherent Pakistan and it thought Kashmir to be a "natural extension". It has been a long-drawn struggle to bring the article into something resembling reality, and it is still ongoing. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 16:56, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

• very funny. Thanks a lot for chiming in, I had almoste invited you here with a TB. I bet Hari Singh would have died laughing after reading the page in that condition. Thanks for your kind efforts so far. I have seen several such examples of nonsense in the name of history. A major source of the problem is the Propaganda that the students of neighbouring country are fed in the name of History. basically a form of brainwashing. and as usual students I feel are the most active lot here, at least in our subcontinent. So its expected that they get a shock of their life seeing things as it is in wiki. Yeah, may be the minefield helps in someway but its a doble edged sword. not recommended.--DBigXray 18:04, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

@DBigXray: I concur with @Kautilya3: that the minefield, though not ideal, is sort of essential to ensure that progress happens given emotions run high for some people when it comes to these topics. Also, I think the Admins can do little given some of these discussions can be get very nuanced and this not from a lack of trying by editors who have indulged in WP:FORUMSHOPPING. It is almost hilariously hypocritical, when an editor went about claiming that there was WP:GAMING given a set of behavior and complained on multiple admin talk pages and then less then a week later resorted to the same behavior on the same set of pages. It is getting to the point where many editors have zero positive contributions on Misplaced Pages and almost spend all their time in edit wars, accusing each of other of wrong-doing and then dragging everyone to a whole list of noticeboards. Anyways, don't worry, I am not going to stop contributing. Adamgerber80 (talk) 20:19, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Don't change my editing

Watch Maj Gen Tariq Zameer in 76th FCC — Preceding unsigned comment added by 43.245.8.72 (talk) 09:05, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

Please provide a WP:RS for your edits. Thanks. Adamgerber80 (talk) 16:47, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

Did you see the current discussion at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/2016 Indian Line of Control strike? I really find the NadirAli, Uncle Sargam and Auntie Agni accounts suspicious, not because they are voting for the merging of the content, but because of a pattern. NadirAli and Uncle Sargam voted within an hour of eachother and basically the same (against the article), while people were only voting keep for three days constantly. Not to mention Uncle Sargam's general edits seem to be sporadic. Now, there is this bascially newly-created and also sporadic Auntie Agni account. Auntie Agni also relisted the discussion on the list of Pakistan-related deletion discussions. Shouldn't it be then relisted on India-related deletion discussions as well? What do you think? EkoGraf (talk) 14:15, 22 May 2018 (UTC)