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I'll use User:Abhinay.leo/tempMaterial for dumping and preparing material before moving to the main article page. - abhi (talk) 04:17, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, Abhinay.leo, you are graciously extended an invitation to join the Indian Education ! The WikiProject Indian Education is an evolving and expanding WikiProject. We are a group of editors who are dedicated to creating, revising, and expanding articles, lists, categories and Wikiprojects, to do with anything related to Indian Education System(Schools,Colleges and Universities).
As you have shown an interest in article related to Education in India we thought you might like to take an interest in this growing WikiProject.Thank you for your contributions.
We look forward to welcoming you to the project!

naveenpf (talk) 02:35, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Abhinay.leo. WP:NLIST sets the conditions for inclusion of people in lists within articles. While the general definition might be hard to understand, luckily, it gives an example which is exactly an alumni list. It says "For instance, articles about schools often include (or link to) a list of notable alumni, but such lists are not intended to contain every graduate of the school—only those with verifiable notability." The point being, notability needs to be verifiable. Bringing enough sources to verify notability inline is impossible, so, while not strictly required by the policy, it is usually required to do so by writing an article. The survival of an article usually attests to notability. Please don't take this personally, but until there are articles for these, I will have to remove them per the policy above. I hope you understand. Best regards. --Muhandes (talk) 08:19, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I completely understand. By undoing the deletion I didn't mean to start any edit war, I just thought I'll be able to create those articles in a day (but soon realized I cant :)). Thanks for the suggestions and help, lets get this article in WP:FA. - abhi (talk) 02:42, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to nominate Vinita Gupta for Did you know, do you want full credit for writing it or are we sharing credit? --Muhandes (talk) 05:11, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In wikipedia it's all collaboration, we will share :) - abhi (talk) 05:18, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

nominated. --Muhandes (talk) 05:51, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's on the queue all ready to go, should be up 5 July 13:30 New Delhi time. Just thought you might want to know. --Muhandes (talk) 05:00, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You working so hard and helping so much to improve List of universities in India . Thanks a lot naveenpf (talk) 08:12, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for the appreciation Naveen. - abhi (talk) 01:19, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. I thought I'll ask here rather than in the article talk page since the talk page is a bit messy now. I don't follow this. First, the math is incorrect - the numbers don't add up. But more important, the list of state universities list 15 state universities, not 17, and there are 2 IIITs in Madhya Pradesh, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior and Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur. Am I missing something? --Muhandes (talk) 15:01, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I now realize the IIITs are also listed as deemed... For now I completely removed them and started discussion on the talk page. --Muhandes (talk) 15:13, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Allright, I found the missing state universities, Raja Mansingh Tomar Music and Art University and Rajmata Vijayraje Scindia Agricultural University, which are not on the official list. I commented them out and I've listed them on the talk page for discussion. --Muhandes (talk) 15:54, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

basically earlier count had IIITs counted in both deemed and autonomous, so i corrected that and IIFM (Autonomous) was not counted so added that. so Autonoumous count now became 6-2+1=5 (IIT, IIM, IISER, NIT and IIFM).

for the other two universities - actually i forgot to start this on talk page. Yesterday I found that the Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University was split into 2 and Rajmata Vijayraje Scindia Agricultural University (see this) was formed. Now, it seems this university is accredited only by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (see this) and not by UGC. I'll be looking more into this today, probably we'll find the explanation for the two Gujrat's Agricultural universities also. And for the Music University, its website lists a Act of state government by which it was established but does not appear in UGC's list, i'll find about its accredition. - abhi (talk) 21:02, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

so finally the count was 2 Central + 1 Private + 3 Deemed + 17 State + 5 Autonomous = 28. - abhi (talk) 21:02, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I think I fully understand the situation now. I think we should not add any of the questionable ones until we have consensus, and any institute not on the lists sourced in the lead is by definition questionable. IIFM for example is not listed in the autonomous list, so we should discuss it too.

As a side note, I'm going on vacation (well, a conference, so half work) for about two weeks, so I wont be able to contribute as much. Have fun! --Muhandes (talk) 05:15, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Operations research conference in Australia. Sounds interesting. Have a nice trip! - abhi (talk) 16:51, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Calmer Waters 08:02, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations on your first DYK :) Was fun cooperating with you, and I would be happy to do it again. --Muhandes (talk) 08:40, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you and congratulations to you too :). I have learnt a lot from you on wiki editing. Will definitely look forward to collaborate with you more. - abhi (talk) 17:00, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Abhinay.leo, 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

Hi , Are you coming for the event ?--naveenpf (talk) 05:33, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Naveen, Thanks for the invite. I would have loved to come but I am working in USA so will not be able to come. Best wishes for a successful event. - abhi (talk) 05:44, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am getting close to finish the list. I noticed all you had left to complete Maharashtra was the summary list and alphabetizing, so I went ahead and did that. Thanks for he help and best regards. --Muhandes (talk) 13:03, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey thanks and sorry could not finish that myself, last few weeks were a very hectic. - abhi (talk) 06:36, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Please contribute to a discussion about standardising the format for lists of educational institutions in states and union territories of India at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Education_in_India#State_Lists_Format. Thanks.--Siddhartha Ghai (talk) 08:34, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your comments are invited for building consensus and finalising the format at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Education_in_India#State_Lists_Format. Thanks.--Siddhartha Ghai (talk) 12:27, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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"Please avoid blindly copying from old revisions". Please do enlighten me, where i have blindly copied... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Babudaniel (talk • contribs) 07:16, 4 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Here is your edit which in effect undid many of previous edits. If you did not copy paste from a previous version then probably you edited and saved a from a previous version. - abhi (talk) 08:11, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Abhinay.leo! I hope you enjoy this cookie as an amicable greeting from a fellow Wikipedian, SwisterTwister talk 07:22, 11 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much SwisterTwister :) -abhi (talk) 07:30, 11 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Regarding changes to the current state lists format. Siddhartha Ghai (talk) 22:39, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Went for a second run, in case you want to keep a second pair of eyes on it. --Muhandes (talk) 16:04, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Siddhartha Ghai (talk) 22:00, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi abhi. Your input in this matter will be really appreciated. --Muhandes (talk) 14:58, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi guys, I have been tied up for last few months. Updated with my inputs. - abhi (talk) 10:14, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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New information for defining "University" in an Indian context. Siddhartha Ghai (talk) 07:02, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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