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Largely inactive since July 2004 for want of time. A lot has changed since my last edit here. I hope to be back soon. Chancemill Chancemill 11:33, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)

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Better yet, thank you for writing such a great article. I enjoyed reading it. 172 10:51, 25 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

The article about East India Company was terrific. - Kesava 13:41, 25 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

I do not know much about Dhruva, you are the expert:-) Will look at it anyway. Thanks for making the red blue. KRS 18:48, 27 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

I'm back !! How can i help? Deepak 20:02, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hijra (India)

To: User:Chancemill, User:Sundar, User:Harikishoreaj, User:Nichalp, User:KRS, User:Ambarish, User:Arvindn

The Hijra article needs some help/comments. If you know more on the subject, please feel free to comment at Talk:Hijra (India). Thanks. --Rrjanbiah 04:24, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Main Page Hack ?

Hey man, please set the jpeg on main page right...asap...I dont have the admin perms to do that....Kesava 15:49, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Happy Birthday

Hope you are having a good day. Keep up the good work! Yardcock 16:58, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)

English

Hi. Please disambiguate English on your user page. For example, English. Thanks. RedWolf 02:46, Sep 3, 2004 (UTC)

Invite

Hi

I'm posting this to invite you to participate in WP:LCOTW , a project you may be interested in. Please consider nominating and/or voting for a suitable article there. Filiocht 12:27, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

RFC pages on VfD

Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:28, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

English disambiguation on User page

Hi. Please disambiguate English on your user page. For example, English. Thanks. RedWolf 20:49, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)

New Mathematics Wikiportal

I noticed you've done some work on Mathematics articles. I wanted to point out to you the new Mathematics Wikiportal- more specifically, to the Mathematics Collaboration of the Week page. I'm looking for any math-related stubs or non-existant articles that you would like to see on Wikipedia. Additionally, I wondered if you'd be willing to help out on some of the Collaboration of the Week pages.

I encourage you to vote on the current Collaboration of the Week, because I'm very interested in which articles you think need to be written or added to, and because I understand that I cannot do the enormous amount of work required on some of the Math stubs alone. I'm asking for your help, and also your critiques on the way the portal is set up.

Please direct all comments to my user-talk page, the Math Wikiportal talk page, or the Math Collaboration of the Week talk page. Thanks a lot for your support! ral315 02:54, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

New Mathematics Project Participants List

Hello Chance.

In case you didn't see the discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics#Reformat of Participants list, I'm writing to you to let you know that I've converted the "WikiProject Mathematics Participants List" into a table. It is now alphabetical, includes links to the participant's talk page and contribution list, and has a field for "Areas of Interest". Since your name is on the list, I thought you might want to check and/or update your entry.

Regards, Paul August ☎ 14:02, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)

Looking for help on a major wiki project

Hey :) I was wondering if you'd be interesting in helping out with www.Knowmore.org, a corporation search wiki we're trying to get off the ground. We could DEFINATELY use some people that know how to make a wiki community great & the site is almost a blank slate at this point. It's been heavily customized and is designed to help responsible consumers enter any product or company name and immediatly find information about that co. (the main focus of the wiki is corporate & political information in a much more specialized way then wikipedia currently offers) Let me know if you're interested! aim: knowmoreorg or bernard@knowmore.org

Birthday

User:Jenmoa/birthday --User:Jenmoa 05:45, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please vote on list of lists, a featured article candidate

Please vote at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of lists of mathematical topics. Michael Hardy 20:21, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back!!

Hey. I saw you editing today for the first time after 7 months and I just wanted to welcome you back. You may not know me (I joined and became an admin after you left). Tell me if you ever need anything.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 14:17, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wishes

I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. --Bhadani 17:41, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Page for deletion

Revolution within the form is up for deletion. Can I ask for a vote to "Transwiki". Thanks.WHEELER 23:50, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request,Nomination for removal Khalistan article

Hello Sir I'm nominating this page for deletion because it is written with a point of view , excessive use of unreliable sources.and the title "Khalistan" is wrong for the topic because "Khalistan" does not exist,lack of support from resident Punjabi's and Sikhs in India, but there was a "Movement for Khalistan" and that is the right title for the topic, and i think this whole article "a new name" should be rewritten with the help of people from sikh community "in" India and other Indians, because this topic is related to politics/people of India.We all should understand Khalistan is not a political entity and having a article is not justified, Microsoft Encarta and Britannic encyclopedia don't have an article known as "Khalistan" but they do have articles on the movement that took place decades back, and i think there are also copyright issues involved with this article because big parts of this article are written on other peoples research. Many reliable sources are used to show "one side" of their view on the topic, there are also indications that organisations banned by US and EU are involved in providing their research on the movement.I am a strong supporter to have a stub on this topic , but im afraid that such articles on wikipedia have become mouthpieces for organisation which are known for disrupting peace (assassination of one of india's prime minister, twin bomb blast in New Delhi on the eve of Diwali) in Indian sub continent. This article requires your attention , please help. Anmol.2k4 18:30, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

IRC for India: #wikipedia-in

Please join this channel for India-related discussions. In case you need help to access IRC, please visit my IndianIRC page. --Andy123(talk) 22:15, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

==Requesting help== (Moved from Main Page Chancemill 09:48, 8 April 2006 (UTC))[reply]

Hello since you are knowledgeable about India. I would like to request you to please review my article Indian Online Classifieds Industry and provide your (hopefully favourable) comments on the deletion page.

Welcome back!

Good to see you're back! 172 | Talk 09:49, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Need Help with Satguru article

There is currently a debate on the Satguru talk page about whether a satguru is always a sannyasin and unmarried as Sivaya Subramuniyaswami says. One person says these are equated and there is no source saying otherwise. I noticed you created the sannyasin site. Could you please help us? Thank you for your time. Jon 01:11, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

We seem to have worked it out ourselves. Jon 15:51, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back!

Nice to see you back in action. It's been almost 2 years!! =Nichalp «Talk»= 17:44, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Chancemill, Thanks. My english may not be right. Forgive please. You understand the point that the net is not reached into deep rural areas. But in Ayyavazhi books were in good number. But only few days before I understand that books could be used as sources. So I've done something in the Ayyavazhi article. But still outside wikipedia Ayyavazhi is too bad in net. Any way thank you once again for your support and compliment. - Vaikunda Raja 18:29, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Information Theory

I reverted the introduction on information theory. You were likely motivated to change it by a recent (now undone) change, so hopefully the revert is more to your liking. Please discuss on Talk:information theory if it is not. Calbaer 17:34, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ayyavazhi

Hi Chancemill. I noticed your comments here. I'm highly sympathetic to the systematically marginalised "traditional" Tamil religions. It's a pity that all Tamil people are brought under a blanket label of Hinduism if they don't belong to any other organised minority religion. Yes, ayyanar, vandimalaichchiamman, muththaalaiyamman, etc., are quite familiar to me as I come from South Tamil Nadu, where they exist, though sadly kind of getting "Hinduismised" by the day. But, I feel that Ayyavazhi is not quite like that. It's more like the adi parasakthi movement etc., brought into vogue by a single person. Yes, I fully support having a NPOV article on Ayyavazhi. But, mentioning it in each and every article possible is what irks me. It imputes more notability that what it has. Our religious sympathies shouldn't come in the way of notability constraint of wikipedia. Please see my frustrated comment at Talk:India#Adding Ayyavazhi. Tell me if I'm wrong in my inference.

By the way, if I got a digital camera, let me capture some images of the village deities and write-up an article on them. Would ask for your help there. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 05:54, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mahawiki

Hi dear Admin,

This is to bring to your notice the wiki-feud I've been having with User:Mahawiki for almost one month now. It started with the Belgaum page which went to mediation, warnings were handed out to both parties, and when Mahawiki's incivil ways continued, Admin:Bluyugen handed him a warning and then a block. Find that here.

I do not want to turn the clock back and go through all those content disputes again. Infact, I dont want to present to you the details of any content dispute we've had. All I want to present to you is the brazen incivility and personal attacks being committed by User:Mahawiki either in the course of his content disputes or even simply just out of spite.

All the diffs(exhibiting his incivility and personal attacks) I provide below are from AFTER, I REPEAT, "AFTER". ADMIN BLUGYUEN INTERVENED, WARNED ALL OF US, AND HANDED MAHAWIKI A BLOCK.

Please find below dozens of instances of blatant incivility and personal attacks by User:Mahawiki either on me or on User:Dineshkannambadi and all Kannadigas in general. His remarks are in extremely bad taste and counterproductive resulting in undermining of the good faith efforts of the other editors to carry on editing their articles.

While I dont want to go into each and every diff and explain it, just to give you a sample of his incivility, he has made edits where, even if only in jest or sarcasm, he makes atrocious claims like, I am on a kill Mahawiki mission, that User:Dineshkannambadi is the Kannada (Bin) Laden(sic). In another edit, even if only for jest(which I certainly dont find amusing nor appreciate esp., when it comes from him), he has threatened to sue me. He has called us cultural TERRORISTS, losers, notorious, shameless etc., etc. He uses the word vandalism like one would use 'Hi' and 'Hello'.

Find all the above and much much much more in the diffs I've provided below. Whats worse is his antics are going unchecked because Admin:Blugyen who knows about our feud is on a wikibreak and Admin:Sundar whose intervention I've sought more than once, is busy with other things(I presume, in real life) - which ofcourse, I dont hold against either of them.

But wikipedia will be a poorer place if brazen incivility like this goes unchecked for weeks simply because many admins dont know about it or the ones who know are by force of circumstances, too busy to deal with it.

I request immediate and harsh action on Mahawiki.

Once again, let me remind everyone that in the links below, none of them pertain to any content disputes. I belive in dealing with the content disputes on the relevant talk pages and dont usually bring it out on user talk pages.

Infact, I have even not listed below, the atrocious claim he made a couple of days ago that I had deleted and later undeleted an article. Also not listed below is his blatant removal of {{fact}} tags I had added in a couple of articles without even clarifying or providing a citation for the claim which I had tagged. Also not listed below may be umpteen other instances of incivility and npa violations on his part that I might have missed.

All the diffs below deal purely and only with his brazen incivil comments and personal attacks not just on me, but on User:Dineshkannambadi and also highly respected historians like Mr. Suryanath Kamath et al(who have been cited in some articles by Dinesh) whom he has trashed and dismissed in the most uncivil manner possible.

Apart from this he also makes disparaging remarks on Karnataka and Karnataka politicians who he keeps claiming are oppressing and torturing Marathi speaking people in Belgaum. This is not a content dispute, this is plain nonsense and insanely belligerent language.

His incivility apart, he has made it a habit and a routine to go around all over wikipedia branding me and Dinesh as 'Kannadi' vandals bent on Kannadizing all articles we touch. Ask him if we have included any uncited material or if we has ever cited any references for his numerous claims or whether he has taken it up on the article talk page instead of on a random user talk page. His answer will be negative. And yet, that doesnt stop him from going around shouting that we have been vandalising articles!!

Anway, I dont want to veer this towards the 'content disputes' which is a whole different matter altogether. Content disputes can always be discussed and agreements reached. Let me present to you just his brazen incivility and personal attacks.

Here we go -

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Sarvagnya 22:19, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Vedanta

Request your membership and participation in the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Vedanta. Thanks. -- ॐ Kris 16:21, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

British East India Company

An article you created or improved has been selected for Featured Article Review. Please see the talk page and the nomination page for ways you can improve it. Jeffpw 09:44, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mathematics CotW

I am writing you to let you know that the Mathematics Collaboration of the week(soon to "of the month") is getting an overhaul of sorts and I would encourage you to participate in whatever way you can, i.e. nominate an article, contribute to an article, or sign up to be part of the project. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks--Cronholm144 18:15, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Malayalee

Hello, there is a dispute in the Malayalee article regarding the origin of Malayalam. I'm contacting you because you have an interest in languages and linguistics and seem to know a bit about the origins of Malayalam. Could you please weigh in on the discussion? Thanks! --vi5in^[talk] 17:51, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello please ignore this person's comment. He is bluffing.we have not told anything contradicting the relationship b/w two languages(Malayalam and Tamil). He has not provided any link(atleast) which says the words(Malai and aali) come from any language. I think wikipedia is not the place to add unvarifed content and anyone's political views.Tulu war 17:49, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Java and Portal

I recently posted the following text on Wikipedia regarding the creation of a new computing-related project:

'WikiProject Java is a Wikipedian community that aims to better organize information in articles related to the Java programming language and its platform.

If I'm cor-rec-to, there are about 900 articles on Java technology in Wikipedia, which may be more than ALL other programming languages articles combined...

At least, it's more than for C++, and there IS a C++ WikiProject...

And it's MUCH more than the .NET WikiProject with 82 articles...

There is also a Ruby project and a Python portal so...

Now you can also see a proposal for the Java Portal (temp location).'

Please support this initiative, A l a i n R 3 4 5
^{Techno-Wiki-Geek} 04:09, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday (2010)

Happy Birthday

from the Birthday Committee

Wishing Chancemill a very happy birthday on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!

Don't forget to save us all a piece of cake!

Armbrust ^Talk _Contribs 12:38, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Suspension of admin privileges due to inactivity

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative privileges of users who have been inactive for one year, meaning administrators who have made neither any edits nor any logged actions in over one year. As a result of this discussion, your administrative privileges have been removed pending your return. If you wish to have these privileges reinstated, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e., as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised and that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions). This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. RL0919 (talk) 20:16, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Invite to WikiConference India 2011

Hi Chancemill,

The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011.
You can see our Official website, the Facebook event and our Scholarship form.

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.

We look forward to see you at Mumbai on 18-20 November 2011

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