My name is David; I am from India. I am interested in Sports and Politics. I obtained a masters degree in Political Science and Public Administration but became a sports journalist.
For any questions or discussions related to Indian events, please use my talk page or email me at: davidindia@gmail.com, and please be mindful of the stealth canvassing guideline.
Hope you enjoy contributing to Wikipedia. Be bold in editing pages. Here are some links that you might find useful:
- Some other pages that will help you know more about Wikipedia: Manual of Style and Wikipedia:Five pillars, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, Wikipedia:Civility, Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, Wikipedia:How to write a great article.
I hope you stick around and keep contributing to Wikipedia.
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For my own reference:
Link for India petscan: unref drive my#Nov25: https://petscan.wmcloud.org/?psid=39854298
India Red List: https://wir-redlist-explorer.toolforge.org/
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A barnstar for you!
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| Thanks for the amazing work in creating the articles for the recently elected MLAs Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 23:21, 5 May 2026 (UTC) |
March 2026 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award
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| This award is given in recognition to Davidindia for achieving second place with 690.5 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's March 2026 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 8362 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – DreamRimmer ■ 16:35, 28 April 2026 (UTC) |
March 2026 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award
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| This award is given in recognition to Davidindia for collecting more than 690.5 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's March 2026 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 8362 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – DreamRimmer ■ 16:35, 28 April 2026 (UTC) |
The Geography Barnstar
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| Thank you for your contribution to Wikipedia:WikiProject Andhra Pradesh/Districts update - 2026 --Arjunaraoc (talk) 01:03, 5 April 2026 (UTC) |
November 2025 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award
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| This award is given in recognition to Davidindia for collecting more than 42.5 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's NOV25 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 6,000 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:30, 22 December 2025 (UTC) |
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World Destubathon Barnstar |
| Much appreciate your effort in the World Destubathon! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:49, 20 July 2025 (UTC) |
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| This award is given in recognition to Davidindia for achieving third place with 650.5 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's JUN25 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 9,500 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – DreamRimmer Alt ■ 15:47, 14 July 2025 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| Creating over 1200 articles within less than two years is not everyone's cup of tea. I'm also proud to say that I acted as your mentor during your initial days and hope to see you for a long time. Thilsebatti (talk) 03:07, 5 July 2025 (UTC) |
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The Writer's Barnstar |
| Thank You for creating the articles of Indian politicians, even this Barnstar is nothing to recognise your contributions. Happy Editing. Taabii (talk) 13:12, 21 December 2024 (UTC) |
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The Working Man's Barnstar |
| I consider you worthy of this award because of all the pages you have tirelessly created in the past with proper sources on Wikipedia.Super Dud (talk) 10:18, 27 October 2024 (UTC) |
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The Writer's Barnstar |
| When we initially met, you had less than twenty articles. In less than a year, you've published about 700 articles, which is incredible. Thank you for your contributions, and I hope you will stay on wikipedia for a very long time. Thilsebatti (talk) 03:48, 2 November 2024 (UTC) |
A kitten for you!
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February 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award
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| This award is given in recognition to Davidindia for collecting more than 100 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's FEB24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing 14,300 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – – DreamRimmer (talk) 18:43, 8 March 2024 (UTC) |
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| Hey Davidindia! Thank you for your efforts for WikiProject Women in Red. Cheers and Happy editing! Youknowwhoistheman (talk) 13:29, 7 March 2024 (UTC) |
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| Thanks for creating the articles related to sports. — QuadriSyedSahab(T · C 09:45, 11 February 2024 (UTC) |
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| Hi, Davidindia Nice work! on Arun Yogiraj article, Thank you for your contribution. Cheers! Dcotos (talk) 11:39, 2 January 2024 (UTC) |
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| Hey David, Thank you for creating article Pranav Soorma on english Wikipedia and also for you're good contributions, Great work, keep it up! We appreciate you're effort to creating good articles on here.😊 ~~ αvírαm|(tαlk) 13:50, 17 January 2024 (UTC) |
ITN recognition for Maganti Gopinath
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On 11 June 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Maganti Gopinath, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede66 23:04, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
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Have started creating Indian sportswomen articles as part of Women in Red project and successfully completed both hockey and football Indian team pages. Have made all the Red links into blue! Sept. 1 to 15 2023; Now proceeding to Athletics and other Indian teams. (Note: This is old 2023 Sept comment)
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