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::::::That's not an issue to discuss in *this* talk page. Please make your request at [[WP:ANB|Admin's noticeboard]]. --[[User:Ragib|Ragib]] ([[User talk:Ragib|talk]]) 00:55, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
::::::That's not an issue to discuss in *this* talk page. Please make your request at [[WP:ANB|Admin's noticeboard]]. --[[User:Ragib|Ragib]] ([[User talk:Ragib|talk]]) 00:55, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

::IM telling u guys I have really really cool pictures of India. I have alot of them. You could create a seperate page called "pictures of Indian places" or something like that. But my user name is blocked because someone thought ARYAN818 (my username) was offensive. Even though my page said not to block me because of my user name. Can someone unblock me please? [[Special:Contributions/71.105.82.152|71.105.82.152]] ([[User talk:71.105.82.152|talk]]) 01:17, 7 July 2008 (UTC)


== Let us sumerise the page ==
== Let us sumerise the page ==

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Should change population unit

should change 1.12 billion[8] to something like 1.120.000.000 because the term "billion" is ambiguous. It can be either that or 1.120.000.000.000.000. -- Lacrymology

Largest democracy

better pictures

this article seriously needs some better pics of india --60.50.66.130 (talk) 14:04, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have wonderful pictures of places in India but i dont know how to put them up....if Someone wants the pictures ill give them to you, and you can put them up....or you can get them from my myspace page....go to myspace.com/India100, and you will have lots of very very nice pictures of India. Please use them! 71.105.82.152 (talk) 22:01, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Dude, upload them to Flickr, that's what most pics on Wikipedia are from. Tri400 (talk) 13:34, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Can you help me? My actual user name is Aryan818 but ive been blocked and banned from editing becuase some morons think im a white supremacist nazi or something. But my name is Aryan and i live in the 818 area code, so thats why i put Aryan818. I had other people on wikipedia put in my website that i should not be banned or blocked , and yet there are morons out there who still take advantage of their power and try to ban and block me, even though it clearly says in my page DO NOT BLOCK THIS USER because ARYAN IS HIS NAME, AND 818 IS HIS AREA CODE. So can someone help me? Can someone PLEASE UNBLOCK ME? My user name is Aryan818. 71.105.82.152 (talk) 17:45, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Is someone going to help me or what? I have tons of pictures I want to load for this website, but I want to load it as a user not as a LOGGED OUT USER....the problem is my user name is banned from editing because some moron thinks im a white nazi or something, even though my page says not to block me. The person who did this was the user Zoe.....Can somebody please lift this stupid ban so I can edit? I want to give nice pictures of India 71.105.82.152 (talk) 18:19, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Can't you make a new username? That way you can upload pictures and you will be respected. It is a win-win situation. GizzaDiscuss © 07:36, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Gizza, That would be block evasion. The new account will get blocked too. S/he will have to wait out the block or request for a unblock. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 07:43, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Just FYI, related block incident and block log. The last block was an indef block on the name. I feel a unblock request has a good chance of success...since Aryan is a common name. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 07:55, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I feel a new user name is a good option to pursue. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 08:04, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, sorry I didn't make myself clear. I was familiar with the incident before and knew it was an indef block based on a username, not on any sort of bad editing. GizzaDiscuss © 08:50, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ok so is somebody gonna unblock me or what? My user name is Aryan818 71.105.82.152 (talk) 23:13, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That's not an issue to discuss in *this* talk page. Please make your request at Admin's noticeboard. --Ragib (talk) 00:55, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
IM telling u guys I have really really cool pictures of India. I have alot of them. You could create a seperate page called "pictures of Indian places" or something like that. But my user name is blocked because someone thought ARYAN818 (my username) was offensive. Even though my page said not to block me because of my user name. Can someone unblock me please? 71.105.82.152 (talk) 01:17, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Let us sumerise the page

The India article is very large.If we sumerize it in catagories It would be great.(And keep the Article neat like the featured ones).
--Raunak' ' ( .:: Raunak Roy ::.. ) 13:57, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I want to add an external link to India's energy profile/statistics from the Energy Information Administration (Official Energy Statistics of the U.S. Government). I feel this is an appropriate link considering how crucial energy is to the development of India and current energy concerns. I might want to add some energy content under the economy section as well. Any thoughts or concerns?

Further discussion on "largest democracy"

As a result of discussion at the MedCab Case India talk page, Fowler and Fowler has prepared a summary of his research on use of the term "largest democracy' as applied to India. We have agreed to post it here for discussion by editors who regularly edit this article. Here is the summary:

The superlative "largest" (when applied to countries) has some intrinsic ambiguity. Two perfectly reliable sources can use it quite differently: thus, a New York Times article calls China the "world's largest country," whereas the Encyclopaedia Britannica article on Russia, states in its lead, "... By far the world's largest country, it covers nearly twice the territory of Canada, the second largest." The ambiguity is often resolved both in Wikipedia and other encyclopedias by reserving "largest" for area and "most populous" for population. For example, the Britannica article on India says, "With roughly one-sixth of the world's total population, India is the second most populous country, after China." Similarly, the Wikipedia article on People's Republic of China states, "... is the largest country in East Asia and the third or fourth largest country in the world. ... With a population of over 1.3 billion, it is the most populous country in the world."
The collocation "largest democracy" is also ambiguous. For example, "largest industrial democracies" is applied to G8 countries, and does not include India; however, it also has a concomitant POV—issues that are best avoided. Although there are POV issues in any description of governance in a country as "democratic," these are further amplified when "largest democracy" is used, since, according to the OED, the phrase can have the following meanings:
  1. "the largest form of governance by the people" among all the nations of the world,
  2. "the largest social state in which all have equal rights, without hereditary or arbitrary differences of rank or privilege," or
  3. "the most populous of all nations that practice democracy."
In addition, the phrase "largest democracy in X" (where, X is some large region) has been applied most often to third world democracies (e.g. India, Brazil, or Indonesia) and hardly ever to Western democracies (e.g. United States), thereby introducing another POV dimension. Consequently, major encyclopedias either don't use the expression "world's largest democracy" (for example, neither the Britannica article on India, nor the Encarta article on India, mentions "world's largest democracy," although each talks, in great detail, about India's democratic system) or disambiguates its anomalies in some fashion. For example, the 40-page Student Britannica article on India begins with: "About one sixth of all the human beings on Earth live in India, the world's most populous democracy...."). Since there are many forms of democracy (even "totalitarian democracy"), it is more informative to use the expression "liberal democracy" to describe India's form of governance. Consequently, "the most populous liberal democracy in the world" is a more accurate (and less ambiguous) description than "largest democracy."

Would interested editors please comment by 23:59, (UTC) July 13? Sunray (talk) 23:28, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference largestdem1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).