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editHow can i contact you to discuss raja ravi varma lane more? Mallu.rani (talk) 02:02, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
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Women in Red
editHi there, DesiBoy101. I've been looking at the interesting articles about women artists in India you have been writing over the past year. It would be useful to have you as a member of WikiProject Women in Red where we are trying to improve coverage of women on Wikipedia. This month's focus on Art+Feminism and Folklore seems to coincide with your interests. You can become a member by registering in the box at the top of wp:Women in Red. Even if you do not feel like joining, I look forward to your future articles. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 10:55, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
- Hello Ipigott, thank you for reaching out! I'm indeed aware of the WikiProject Women in Red and the work that is done by the wonderful community. My foray into editing Wikipedia and subsequently, the Indian women artists, came about during Art+Feminism in 2021. Currently, I'm participating in one of the Indian A+F events as a part of the 2022 edition. Happy to share that I've now joined the WiR project and will check out the details of the ongoing event soon. With WiR, I look forward to extend the number of my contributions beyond the Women's History Month and hopefully make a sizeable effort throughout the year! :) DesiBoy101 (talk) 17:53, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
- Welcome to Women in Red! Good to have you as a member, DesBoy101. For reference works and related links on Indian artists, you should browse through our Redlist index. If you have not already done so, you might find it useful to look through our Primer for creating women's biographies. Please let me know if you run into any difficulties or need assistance. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 10:22, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you Ipigott! I've gone through the list and the primer that you've shared. I think I'm ready to dive right in! While going through the red list I discovered that there is one artist, Parvathi Nayar who already has a Wiki page but two Wikidata entries - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20563273 and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27452173. Maybe you can merge these two, if possible. I'm pretty sure they are the same. Also, if you could share the merge process with me, I could learn something new. DesiBoy101 (talk) 20:21, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
- Welcome to Women in Red! Good to have you as a member, DesBoy101. For reference works and related links on Indian artists, you should browse through our Redlist index. If you have not already done so, you might find it useful to look through our Primer for creating women's biographies. Please let me know if you run into any difficulties or need assistance. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 10:22, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red, March 2022
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K. S. Kulkarni
editHi! Great work on the expansion of K. S. Kulkarni's article - thank you. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 08:28, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you for the appreciation and creating the article in the first place. DesiBoy101 (talk) 15:38, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
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Feminism and Folklore 2022 - Local prize winners
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- Thank you so much for the great news! I've filled the form today with my details. Looking forward to participate again next year! :D DesiBoy101 (talk) 07:29, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
June events from Women in Red
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June 2022
editHi DesiBoy101, I just wanted to give you a heads-up that when adding infoboxes to articles, they should be placed before the introduction per WP:LAYOUT. I think I have them all fixed now, so no big deal. I just wanted to message you incase you seen the edits and was wondering what I was doing. Thanks. Cmr08 (talk) 06:39, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
- Hello Cmr08, thanks for the heads-up and updating the infoboxes as well as headings. Those were some of the initial articles I'd created on Wiki when I thought that I need to place them after the first paragraph for mobile layouts, haha. I realized later that this was not the case and placed it rightly in the future pages without looking at the previous articles. Appreciate your time and effort in going through my articles. Regards - DesiBoy101 (talk) 07:07, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red in July 2022
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A cup of tea for you!
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- Thank you @CaptainEek! Appreciate your time in reviewing the page and sharing a cup of tea with me! ;) DesiBoy101 (talk) 02:51, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
DYK for Gita Sarabhai
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- @Onel5969 - Thank you for the appreciation and taking the time to review this article. DesiBoy101 (talk) 03:28, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
CS1 error on Tribal Research and Training Institute, Pune
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DYK nomination of Sundari (paintings)
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Hello! Your submission of Sundari (paintings) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Pbritti (talk) 03:32, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
- Hey! Just wanted to drop by and say that I commend you on a very strong article. When dealing with a subject that touches upon British India and sati, NPOV is especially needed—your commitment to neutrality brought forward an informative and fascinating article. Thanks for you contributions and the nomination I was very glad to approve. ~ Pbritti (talk) 15:59, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you so much @Pbritti for the appreciation as well as taking time to approve the nomination. The article has been well researched and written by @Aadrit28 (as you can see), so the entire credit goes to them. I just made little tweaks to ensure that it followed the Wikipedia guidelines and further nominated it for the DYK. Happy to see it go through the review process. :) DesiBoy101 (talk) 03:00, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
- The both of you (and Johnbod) all deserve credit. Thank you for nominating it! ~ Pbritti (talk) 04:17, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you so much @Pbritti for the appreciation as well as taking time to approve the nomination. The article has been well researched and written by @Aadrit28 (as you can see), so the entire credit goes to them. I just made little tweaks to ensure that it followed the Wikipedia guidelines and further nominated it for the DYK. Happy to see it go through the review process. :) DesiBoy101 (talk) 03:00, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
DYK for Sundari painting
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Verifiability not truth
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I will fix the problem. I know you mean well, and partially did well.-- Toddy1 (talk) 19:20, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
- Hello @Toddy1, thanks for your comment. I understand your point and have already realised the same while updating the page(s). Will keep it mind for future edits. Regards - DesiBoy101 (talk) 19:26, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Composite miniature painting
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DYK for Composite miniature painting
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Concern regarding Draft:List of Pune Municipal Corporation heritage structures
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A barnstar for you!
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Magentic Manifestations (submissions) – 338 points, mainly from nine good articles. He's a contender for the "most submissions for a single country" specialty award, with nine submissions for India.
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AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) – 245 points, mostly from the achievement of bringing Genghis Khan to featured status.
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Vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) – 141 points, who created multiple articles about abortion rights and laws in African countries
TheNuggeteer (submissions) – 126 points, who has contributed to several articles associated with the Phillippines- Jaguarnik (submissions) – 125 points, with several good article reviews and an appearance in the In the news section of the Main Page
Averageuntitleduser (submissions) – 119 points, and has written about several Haitian topics and historical figures.
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Paralympic medalists
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- @OCDD - Thanks for the info. The images have been uploaded over Commons and added to Wikipedia now. DesiBoy101 (talk) 09:15, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. A few are still left. Like Avani Lekhara, Harvinder Singh, Sumit Antil, Nitesh Kumar etc. Will you be adding those too? Since these images are available, recent and allowed on Wikipedia, it becomes the perfect time to add / update pictures of all the medalists. OCDD (talk) 10:23, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- @OCDD - I think the existing photos for Avani, Sumit, Harvinder Singh and previous Paralympic medalists are good enough. For Nitesh Kumar, I couldn't find any suitable front facing image in the recent PIB albums. So I've left it for now. DesiBoy101 (talk) 19:14, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. A few are still left. Like Avani Lekhara, Harvinder Singh, Sumit Antil, Nitesh Kumar etc. Will you be adding those too? Since these images are available, recent and allowed on Wikipedia, it becomes the perfect time to add / update pictures of all the medalists. OCDD (talk) 10:23, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
DCWC closing update
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Thebiguglyalien (submissions) comes in third with his series of Kiribati and Botswanan submissions; 
BeanieFan11 (submissions) flies into second place at the last second with 771 points after a string of good articles about sportspersons; and after leading for much of contest's three months, 
Generalissima (submissions) finishes with a whopping 798 points to take home the Gold Belt Buckle. Congratulations to our winners!
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editHey DesiBoy101, the Developing Countries WikiContest will be returning for a second year, and sign-ups are now open! The contest will run from 1 July to 30 September, and the objective remains the same: improve as many articles relating to developing countries as you can to help fight systemic bias on Wikipedia.
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DCWC August update
editWe're a month into the 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest, with stiff competition at the top of the leaderboard already! Our current top five contestants are:
- Spookyaki (submissions) – 256 points, mostly from a handful of GAs about women's history in Latin America as well as the 1991 Haitian coup d'état.
- vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) – 229 points, back with a number of articles on abortion in various African countries.
- simongraham (submissions) – 213 points, mainly from GAs on species of jumping spiders in both Africa and Azerbaijan.
PizzaKing13 (submissions) – 200 points, with five GAs on articles relating to Salvadoran politics, history, and griddle cakes.
BeanieFan11 (submissions) – 168 points from a few GAs, a few DYKs, and a few ITNs on athletes from a variety of countries.
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DCWC closing update
editTwo weeks ago, the 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest came to a close! After three months of stiff competition at the top of the leaderboard, we have our winners. vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions), continuing his work on covering abortion in Africa, comes in third with 692 points. simongraham (submissions) comes in second with 763 points, largely from a slew of good articles about jumping spiders. And returning to the podium for the second year in a row, BeanieFan11 (submissions) takes the Gold Belt Buckle with a mind-boggling 946 points from his series of articles on sportpersons. Congratulations to our winners!
Amazingly, the award for the most countries covered goes to both BeanieFan11 (submissions) and simongraham (submissions), who each submitted articles under 30 flags! BeanieFan11 (submissions) also wins for writing the most quality articles (16 good articles). For submitting 16 articles related to El Salvador, PizzaKing13 (submissions) wins the award for most submissions under one country. The award for most submissions related to women goes to both Spookyaki (submissions) (7 biographies about women) and vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) (21 related articles). And for the second year, simongraham (submissions) wins for the most reviews, having submitted 21!
Among the participants' contributions were 2 FAs, 5 FLs, 124 GAs, and an uncounted number of DYKs, ITNs, and reviews of every kind! Regardless of your level of participation, every contestant can be proud to have contributed towards a major step in countering the systemic bias on Wikipedia. Every year, millions of readers and editors around the globe use Wikipedia to educate themselves and communicate with others about parts of the world that often receive less attention than they deserve. Thank you for participating with us in the contest and contributing to this effort. The DCWC will return next year, and we look forward to seeing you contribute again! However, before that...
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You are invited to participate in the Destubathon of the Americas, a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:52, 15 April 2026 (UTC)
DCWC call for coordinators
editHey DesiBoy101, it's almost that time again! The Developing Countries WikiContest will be returning for its third year, and the coordinator team is looking for experienced content contributors willing to volunteer. The coordinators are responsible for keeping the contest running and its pages—including participants' submissions, the points leaderboard, and the list of eligible articles—updated.
If you would like to apply, please contact one of the coordinators; you may choose to do so privately if you wish: Arconning (talk · email), sawyer777 (talk · email), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · email). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 22:25, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
- @TechnoSquirrel69 - Thank you for the information. Wanted to know if the coordinators can also participate in the contest or they will be exempt from the same? DesiBoy101 (talk) 04:02, 5 June 2026 (UTC)
- Hey DesiBoy101, coordinators recuse themselves from participating, as there's a real risk of bias in the judgment of their submissions. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 05:09, 5 June 2026 (UTC)