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2011 election

i am glad you are interested in the article. please write edit summary every time you make an edit. this will be helpful for others to know what you are doing. thanks. --CarTick (talk) 18:40, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

please read my previous message and please let me know if you need me to explain it to you. thanks. --CarTick (talk) 20:13, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi CarTick, Thanks for your encouragement. I am a frequent user of Wikipedia since 2003, but this is this the first time that I am seriously contributing in an article. Please correct me if I am doing anything wrong. Thanks again. Kathamarai (talk) 20:37, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

So, welcome again and i hope you will enjoy and choose to stay. we follow some simples etiquettes to make life easy for everyone. for example we type a concise summary of our edit in the "edit summary box" below the "edit box". please let me know if you have any other question. regards. --CarTick (talk) 20:45, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

CarTick, I would like to change the flag of AIADMK to its original form of showing ANNA in the middle. So I was trying to find within Wikipedia and I found one as well (made by Wiki San Roze) as showing ANNA in the middle. But when I was trying to insert in the page the size was not matching with the DMK flag. So I made new flags for both parties matching with sizes by myself by editing the AIADMK’s flag made by Wiki San Roze (I hope it doesn’t violate any rules, please let me know about that as well). Now I want to upload both of them both to Wikipedia, Please help me with that, because I don’t know to upload the images here at all.

- (Kathamarai (talk) 18:15, 12 March 2011 (UTC))

Hi Kathamari. thanks for your message. i was once involved in a conversation with a group of editors that revolved around the copyright status of Indian election symbols. The conversation was quite heated and ended with no clearcut conclusion. i said to myself that i will not get involved in anything related to indian election symbols unless some clear guidelines will be drafted and adopted by the wider community. sorry about that. --CarTick (talk) 21:31, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

if you want to upload images in general, please use the "upload file" link on the left side of your screen. but, please remeber wikipedia takes copyright issues very seriously. In simple words, you own copyright to images only taken by you. this also means that one can not take an image of another picture from a book and claim copyright. i have seen people blocked indefinitely for persistently violating the copyright policy. --CarTick (talk) 21:39, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi Kathamarai, Nice to meet someone knowledgeable about Tamil politics :-). Regarding modifying the admk flag issue, a little background on what CarTick says - there is quite a bit of confusion about who has copyright over what in relation to indian election symbols, party flags and general "sinnams". Wikipedia operates under american copyright law and our own election commission says something else - its all a bit confused here right now. At present i believe we can use the ADMK flag under a fair use rationale (another complex concept under us law). For uploading the files use the "upload file" in the left panel (see - Wikipedia:Uploading images). After uploading let me know and i will help with creating the fair use rationale/copyright stuff.--Sodabottle (talk) 22:13, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Problems with upload of File:DMK Flag.svg

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constituency table

well, there is more than one way to do things and i am not going to fight it. could you please provide wikilinks to all constituencies? --CarTick (talk) 15:23, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Sure CarTick. I am working on it. Thanks for your understanding and support. Please let me know if there is any mistake. -(Ka.Thamarai 15:33, 16 March 2011 (UTC))

i dont know if we understand each other. i notice you removed wikilinks from constituencies. why is that? --CarTick (talk) 16:31, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

thamarai. i meant internal links. for example, Gummidipundi should be linked to Gummidipundi. --CarTick (talk) 16:42, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

CarTick, sorry I didn't see that coming. I will correct it. Thanks. -(Ka.Thamarai 16:51, 16 March 2011 (UTC))

you can find the link to all constituencies here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:State_Constituencies_of_Tamil_Nadu. --CarTick (talk) 17:18, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks CarTick, I am working on it. -(Ka.Thamarai 19:36, 16 March 2011 (UTC))

Hi Kathamarai , i added the details of those standing in election , any reason why removeed ? --Rajkumarth (talk) 17:18, 18 March 2011 (UTC

Rajkumarth, the candidates from the DMK+/ AIADMK+ and their consecutive votes would be anyhow mostly repeated in the winner and runner-up columns. So it was decided to be removed to avoid any replication of the details again and again in the same table.--Ka.Thamarai 16:00, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

please see my note

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tamil_Nadu_legislative_assembly_election,_2011#table --CarTick (talk) 04:41, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar

		Barnstar
		thanks for your contributions to Tamil Nadu legislative assembly election, 2011. --CarTick (talk) 17:48, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi CarTick, I thank you a lot for your valuable appreciation and support. --Kathamarai (talk) 20:58, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

--table changes look so nice --Rajkumarth (talk)1984!#$ 16:40, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Rajkumarth. --Kathamarai (talk) 17:00, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Metadata color, short name and electoral symbol

1. How to have Metadata color and short name for a political party which is not having an article in Wikipedia?
2. How to include a additional column for electoral symbol in the existing election box template?
Thanks in advance.
kathamarai  Talk  08:33, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

2011 census of India

could you please help me? there is a lot of interest in the article, but it is in a very bad state. all information can be found here http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/prov_results_paper1.html. --CarTick (talk) 02:46, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Election results page

Sure i will help , thanks for initiating this . --Rajkumarth (talk) 1984!#$ 19:36, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

results

you agreed including Independents is not a good idea. why would you keep adding them then? --CarTick (talk) 16:52, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

CarTick, I am doing the candidates lists district wise. First I am making two lists for each district as one with complete candidates and another with excluding only the independents. And I am now entering the list without independent candidates as we decided. And I am having the complete list also. This might help us if in any case we need it in the future. Have a look now.

— kathamarai (talk ↔ contribs) 17:56, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

looks good. i dont understand what you mean by two lists. but please dont waste your time with these independents. i do appreciate your interest and work, please dont be discouraged. --CarTick (talk) 17:59, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

source

hi can u let me know the source from where u are taking the candidate details .. i will help if i know that ..is it Election commision site ? --Rajkumarth (talk) 1984!#$ 03:51, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Rajkumarth, that would be a really big help. Yes, I collect the details from the CEO site. You can find the details district wise from the reference link of the article page. Please start from the bottom in that district list to avoid we both working on a same district. Thanks again.
— kathamarai (talk ↔ contribs) 15:33, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

if you guys want to avod conflict, decide the destricts you want to do and then do it in your own user space, for example, User:Kathamarai/election and User:Rajkumarth/election and then transfer to the main page. --CarTick (talk) 15:41, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Rajkumarth, I think it would be better if I do it alone completely since I am in a flow. But I would still require your help for reviewing the details in the list with CEO site details and correct it accordingly. Tell me what you think. Thanks.
— kathamarai (talk ↔ contribs) 03:24, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

images

Thamarai, it would be nice to have some images for the election article. cutouts, campaigns, rallies and any other relevant images will do. just suggesting in case you are living in India now. --CarTick (talk) 18:37, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

I wish the same too, but I am also not in India CarTick. — kathamarai (talk ↔ contribs) 03:20, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

		The Original Barnstar
		for your hard work on 2011 Tamil Nadu legislative assembly election results. special thanks. --CarTick (talk) 20:51, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks CarTick.
— kathamarai (talk ↔ contribs) 04:11, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Auto-numbering in contents box

{{help me}}

Please help me to disable auto-numbering in contents box for a particular article.

— kathamarai (talk ↔ contribs) 06:41, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean section numbering in general, or a specific article, and if so, which? Section numbering is a user-preference, auto-number headings, which can be changed in the appearance section of your preferences. —  Tivedshambo  (t/c) 07:09, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

It would be easy for you to understand if you have a look at this link,

For example if you see the main headings, it appears without numbers but the same thing in the contents box on the right side appears with auto-numbers which I don’t want for this particular article. The same applies to the sub-heading as well.

Basically what I want is, the contents box should only show the exact headings and sub-heading I mention in the body with links but without auto-numbers.

— kathamarai (talk ↔ contribs) 07:30, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

You can remove the manual numbers within the sub-section headings, e.g. by changing

=== [[Gummidipundi (State Assembly Constituency)|1. Gummidipundi]] ===

to

=== [[Gummidipundi (State Assembly Constituency)|Gummidipundi]] ===

but I don't think there's any way at present of disabling the auto-numbering for a specific article if you've got it enabled by default. The default is disabled, so the casual user won't see the problem. —  Tivedshambo  (t/c) 09:39, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

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Accept reason:

English Wikipedia administrators are not able to unblock users affected by global blocks, which are handled by Meta-Wiki, not by English Wikipedia. You could apply for an unblock at m:Steward requests/Global#Request for global (un)block, but I think it is very unlikely such a request would be accepted. I have given you IP block exemption, which I hope will achieve the same purpose. However, I don't know whether or not an English WP IP block exemption is capable of overriding a global block. If it doesn't work then I suggest requesting a global IP exemption request at m:Steward requests/Global permissions#Requests for global IP block exemption. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:43, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Kathamarai (talk) 06:59, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Which block message do you receive? Its not possible to determine an underlying IP adres for a user. (Except for Checkusers) Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 08:07, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

“ You are currently unable to edit pages on Wikipedia.

You can still read pages, but cannot edit, change, or create them.
Editing from your IP address or IP address range has been disabled on all wikis by Shizhao (meta.wikimedia.org). The reason given was "Open proxy".
To request unblock, visit your talk page and add the text.........
Additionally, you may appeal the global block at Steward requests/Global.
The block expires on 22 October 2011 at 06:30.

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the above is what I get when I try to edit some pages.
Kathamarai (talk) 08:20, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. Now I am able to edit the pages that I couldn't before.
— Kathamarai (talk) 11:50, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Good. Glad to know it worked. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:55, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

names

Thamarai, could you please leave a space between the initials if there is more than one. for example, "T.M.Soundararajan" and "T.M. Soundararajan" are wrong but "T. M. Soundararajan" is correct. thanks. --CarTick (talk) 20:03, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

CarTick, I was having the doubt about that where to give the space and where not to. I will correct it all. Thanks for your observation. — Kathamarai (talk) 20:19, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

no problem. i like your user page. good job. :) --CarTick (talk) 20:22, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

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--Sodabottle (talk) 04:25, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

update

Thamarai, hope you are doing well. the election results will be out tomorrow and lot of readers will be interested in our article here in wp. because of time difference and other commitments, i am not sure if i will be able to keep pace, but i will try. hope we all will keep the viewers uptodate. --CarTick (talk)

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