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An Invite to join the WikiProject Indian Roads

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Hi, Tatiraju.rishabh, you are graciously extended an invitation to join the Indian Roads ! The WikiProject Indian Roads is an evolving and expanding WikiProject. We are a group of editors who are dedicated to creating, revising, and expanding articles, lists, categories, road portal and Wikiprojects, to do with anything related to Indian Roads.
As you have shown an interest in National Highway 4 (India) we thought you might like to take an interest in this growing WikiProject.
We look forward to welcoming you to the project!

--naveenpf (talk) 07:28, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Non-free files in your user space

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Well, I dont know if you can read this or not, but the images are not posted by me in my talk page. Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 13:04, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Human spaceflight activity

Hello there! As part of an effort to determine how many active editors are present in the spaceflight-related WikiProjects, I have made some changes to the list of members of WikiProject Human spaceflight. If you still consider yourself to be an active editor in this project, I would be grateful if you would please edit the list so that your name is not struck out - thus a clearer idea of the critical mass of editors can be determined. Many thanks in advance!

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WikiProject Indian roads

Hi,

Please see the message at WikiProject Indian roads subject "Madhya Pradesh State Highway Shields" and please mark your comments --naveenpf (talk) 03:32, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Space reorganization

Hello WikiProject Space member! A discussion has been started regarding the future of WikiProject Space here; any comments you might have would be welcome! There are mainly two competing ideas:

1. Centralize all the Space-related WikiProjects, such as Astronomy and Spaceflight, and merge them into WikiProject Space, or
2. Separate the Astronomy and Spaceflight "sides" of WikiProject, and remove WikiProject Space.

If you can think of other options, that's great too. Your contribution to the discussion would be much appreciated. Thanks! :)

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Space at 00:13, 29 November 2010 (UTC).

WikiProject Spaceflight activity

Hello there! As part of an effort to determine how many active editors are present in the spaceflight-related WikiProjects, changes have been made to the list of members of WikiProject Spaceflight. If you still consider yourself to be an active editor in this project, it would be appreciated if you would please edit the list so that your name is not struck out - thus a clearer idea of the number of active editors can be determined. Many thanks in advance!

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Spaceflight at 18:03, 3 December 2010 (UTC).

An Invite to join the Highways WikiProject

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Hi, Tatiraju.rishabh, you are graciously extended an invitation to join the International Highways WikiProject and its new regional taskforces! The Highways WikiProject 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, or anything related to International Roads. This includes supporting existing regional road WikiProjects and fostering the development of new international highway WikiProjects. We have recently created five regional task forces focused on Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania and Latin America. To improve road and highway articles, here are guidelines for B class criteria. Please add any higher GA, FA quality articles to the international roads portal. Also, please help out by inviting new or unfamiliar editors with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/New articles/Invite template.
We look forward to welcoming you to the project!

JCbot (talk) 01:53, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Spaceflight reboot

Hello there! As you may or may not be aware, a recent discussion on the future of the Space-related WikiProjects has concluded, leading to the abolition of WP:SPACE and leading to a major reorganisation of WP:SPACEFLIGHT. It would be much appreciated if you would like to participate in the various ongoing discussions at the reorganisation page and the WikiProject Spaceflight talk page. If you are a member of one of WP:SPACEFLIGHT's child projects but not WP:SPACEFLIGHT itself, it would also be very useful if you could please add your name to the member list here. Many thanks!

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Spaceflight at 00:19, 6 December 2010 (UTC).

Speedy deletion nomination of Vyakti Vikas Kendra

A tag has been placed on Vyakti Vikas Kendra, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia for multiple reasons. Please see the page to see the reasons. If the page has since been deleted, you can ask me the reasons by leaving a message on my user talk page.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. access_denied (talk) 05:02, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Jupiter proposal

Hello! Would you be interested in forming WikiProject Jupiter? If so, please show your support by clicking on the link above!--Novus Orator 23:02, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I am interested. But where should I add my name Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 17:07, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Underneath Damerung at the proposal page...--Novus Orator 07:54, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Changed Jupiter WikiProject to Taskforce

We have (per consensus) changed it to a taskforce within WP:SOLAR. It is now live and your efforts will be appreciated. Our first goal is getting the Jupiter portal to featured status. Cheers!--Novus Orator 06:47, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Asteroids rating as stubs

I think many asteroids shouldn't be labeled as stubs since in many cases they contain within the template and a couple of paragraphs virtually every info known (or relevant) about that particular asteroid. And for the many that also have proper citations i don't see why they should be labeled as the lowest level of article when many in fact are quite complete. In any case that's just my opinion, i hope to hear yours--Macarenses (talk) 11:03, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Very well said. I agree. Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 10:12, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

The Downlink: Issue 0

The Downlink
Your source for news on WikiProject Spaceflight	Issue 0, December 2010
Welcome to The Downlink · Reorganisation of Space WikiProjects · User Activity Checks Welcome to The Downlink Welcome to The Downlink, a new monthly newsletter intended to inform members of WikiProject Spaceflight about the latest developments in the project and its articles. Future issues will contain information on issues under discussion, newly featured content, and articles written by members of the project to appear in the newsletter. All members of WikiProject Spaceflight are invited to contribute any content that they would like to see in the newsletter. If you were not aware of being a member of WikiProject Spaceflight, membership of the former Human spaceflight, Unmanned spaceflight, Timeline of spaceflight and Space colonization WikiProjects was merged into WikiProject spaceflight during the reorganisation of the spaceflight projects, for more details, please see below. Reorganisation of Space WikiProjects The ongoing discussion of the future of Space WikiProjects has been making progress. WikiProject Space was abolished on 5 December 2010, with the Spaceflight, Astronomy and Solar System projects becoming independent of each other. On the same day, an assessment banner, {{WikiProject Spaceflight}} was created for WikiProject Spaceflight to replace the generic space one which had been used previously. On 9 December, WikiProject Space Colonization was abolished, with its tasks being subsumed into WikiProject Spaceflight. On 12 December, the Human spaceflight and Unmanned spaceflight WikiProjects became task forces of WikiProject Spaceflight, whilst WikiProject Timeline of spaceflight became a working group. A number of issues are still under discussion: Introducing better defined assessment criteria and an A-class review process Setting clearer importance criteria for assessing articles Establishing a joint task force with the Astronomy and Solar System projects to cover space telescopes and planetary probes Defining the roles of projects, taskforces and working groups, and processes for establishing new ones Improving the profile and activity of the project Much of the current discussion is taking place on the WikiProject Spaceflight talk page, however there is still some discussion on the original proposal page. User Activity Checks A series of checks are underway to establish the numbers of users who are still active within WikiProject Spaceflight, its task forces and working group. All usernames on the members lists were struck out, and members were asked to unstrike their own names if they were still an active member of the project. If you wish to do so, and have not already, please unstrike your name from the master list, plus the lists on any applicable task forces or working groups Published by WikiProject Spaceflight, if you have any content you wish to include in future newsletters, please contribute

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Please update the Hyderabad population

Please see the population of Hyderabad. I read in some news paper that the population of Hyderabad has reached around 8 Million(8,000,000)

http://www.worldatlas.com/citypops.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.107.132 (talk) 16:30, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

We can't, as we require an exact figure and a reliable source. Also the Census of India is going to release in 2011, and we will update it at that time. Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 06:44, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

The Downlink: Issue 1

The Downlink
Your source for news on WikiProject Spaceflight	Issue 1, January 2011
Welcome to The Downlink · Project News · News from Orbit · Article News · Space Stations and the Push for Featured Topics · Salyut 2 Welcome to The Downlink Welcome to the first full issue of The Downlink, a new monthly newsletter intended to inform members of WikiProject Spaceflight about the latest developments in the project and its articles. Below you will find information about happenings within the project, our recognised content, spaceflight in the news and events needing to be covered in articles. You will also find an editorial about the first concerted effort to develop featured topics related to spaceflight, and an article in need of your help and improvements. Project News will provide details of discussions about and changes in the organisation and structure of the project, newly recognised content, and changes in membership. News from Orbit will summarise spaceflight news and upcoming events, and list suggestions for articles in need of updating as a result. Article News will give details of requests for assistance within articles, and discussions regarding content. All members of WikiProject Spaceflight are invited to contribute any content that they would like to see in the newsletter, and we would particularly welcome the submission of editorials, or an article about an area of spaceflight which you are working on, or particularly interested in. Please see The Downlink page for more details. Project News A new working group has been formed. The space stations working group is expected to work towards creating Featured topics related to space stations. It currently has three members. Discussion within the project is still dominated by the reorganisation proposals. A discussion over the formation and roles of working groups and task forces has led to some clarification regarding working groups, however the roles of the task forces remain vague, and several proposals to abolish them have surfaced. The Human Spaceflight to-do list has been merged into the main project to-do list, with the combined list currently located on the Tasks page of the Spaceflight portal. A discussion regarding opening relations with the Aerospace biography task force of Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation was held, but no conclusions were reached. The Article Alerts bot has resumed operation, and a problem with the information the bot had been delivering was discussed and resolved. New assessment criteria for importance and quality have been implemented, and refinements continue to be made to the importance scale. The scope of the project was redefined to exclude astronomical objects explicitly. Although A-class criteria have been defined, a review process is yet to be discussed or implemented. Colds7ream conducted an analysis of open tasks related to the reorganisation which four major issues remain unresolved: Discussion concerning the existence and roles of task forces within the project; recruitment of new editors; updating guidelines and whether the project or the task forces should be responsible for maintaining them; and the continued existence of the Human spaceflight portal six weeks after consensus was reached to abolish it. Discussion about the structure of the project is ongoing, with several proposals currently on the table. One proposal calls for the abolition of task forces in favour of increased emphasis on working groups, whilst another calls for the task forces to become a list of topics. The idea of a formal collaboration system has been suggested, however opposition has been raised. One of the main open tasks at the moment is replacing the older {{WikiProject Space}} and {{WikiProject Human spaceflight}} banners with the new {{WikiProject Spaceflight}} banner. Articles which need to be retagged are currently listed in Category:WikiProject Spaceflight articles using deprecated project tags. ChiZeroOne is doing a very good job replacing them, but as of the morning of 31 December, there are still 1,424 left to be converted. Additionally, the implementation of a new B-class checklist built into the template has necessitated the reassessment of former B-class articles, which the template has automatically classified as C-class. News from Orbit On 3 December, USA-212, the first X-37B, landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base after a successful mission. On 5 December Proton-M with a Blok DM-03 upper stage failed to place three Glonass-M satellites into orbit, the first of three failures in less than forty eight hours. The NanoSail-D2 spacecraft was supposed to have been ejected from FASTSAT in the early hours of the next morning, however it does not appear to have separated. Finally the Akatsuki spacecraft failed to enter orbit around Venus in the evening of 6 December. The Proton launch was the maiden flight of the Blok DM-03, which does not currently have an article. On 8 December the Dragon C1 demonstration mission was conducted, with the SpaceX Dragon making a little under two orbits of the Earth on its maiden flight, before landing in the Pacific Ocean to complete a successful mission. The Falcon 9 rocket which launched the Dragon spacecraft also deployed eight CubeSats: SMDC-ONE 1, QbX-1, QbX-2, Perseus 000, Perseus 001, Perseus 002, Perseus 003 and Mayflower. The CubeSats do not currently have articles. On 15 December, a Soyuz-FG launched Soyuz TMA-20 to the International Space Station, carrying three members of the Expedition 26 crew. It docked two days later. The Soyuz TMA-20 article is currently short, and could use improvements to bring it up to the same level as articles for US manned spaceflights. On 17 December, a Long March 3A launched Compass-IGSO2. There is currently no article for this satellite. 17 December saw Intelsat regain control of the Galaxy 15 satellite, which had been out of control since a malfunction in April. The Galaxy 15 article is in need of serious cleanup and a good copyedit. On 25 December a GSLV Mk.I failed to place GSAT-5P into orbit. A Proton-M with a Briz-M upper stage successfully launched KA-SAT on 26 December. Barring any suborbital launches at the end of the month which have not yet been announced (a NASA Black Brant was scheduled for December but does not appear to have flown), 2010 in spaceflight concluded on 29 December when an Ariane 5ECA launched the Hispasat-1E and Koreasat 6 spacecraft. These do not currently have articles. Four launches are currently scheduled to occur in January 2011. A Delta IV Heavy is expected to launch NRO L-49 on 17 January. The satellite is expected to be an Improved Crystal electro-optical imaging spacecraft. Two launches are planned for 20 January, with Kounotori 2, the second H-II Transfer Vehicle, being launched by an H-IIB, and the Zenit-3F making its maiden flight to deploy Elektro-L No.1, the first Russian geostationary weather satellite to be launched since 1994. On 28 January Progress M-09M will be launched by a Soyuz-U. 28 January will also be the twenty-fifth anniversary of the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L. Article News It was requested that the article Walter Haeussermann be expanded. Haeussermann, a member of the von Braun rocket group, died on 8 December. Although the article has been updated following his death, a user requested that more information about the engineer be added. Another user requested that the articles Commercial Space Launch Act and Launch Services Purchase Act be created, to cover laws of the United States concerning spaceflight. Articles related to methods of taking-off and landing were discussed. The term VTVL currently has an article whilst VTHL and HTHL do not. It was suggested that the existing article should be merged, and each term be covered by the article for the equivalent aviation term, however some distinction between use in the fields of aviation and spaceflight should remain. Concern was raised that a large scale deletion request could cause many images to be lost from articles, help was requested to investigate whether any of the images were not subject to copyright, or if they were then whether they could be uploaded to the English Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. Concerns were raised about a large amount of content in the newly-created article deorbit of Mir duplicating existing content in existing Good Article Progress M1-5. A proposal to merge deorbit of Mir into Progress M1-5 was made, however objections were raised, and discussion has since stalled without reaching a consensus. It has also been requested that the article Mir be copyedited. The existence of separate categories for "spaceflight" and "space exploration" has been questioned, with a suggestion that some of the exploration categories, including Category:Space exploration iteslf, should be merged into their spaceflight counterparts. Missile Range Instrumentation Ship is currently listed at requested moves, with a proposal to rename it tracking ship. The only open good article nomination is of the book Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet, which is currently awaiting review. Editorial – Space Stations and the Push for Featured Topics There has recently been much talk about trying to increase the activity of the project. To this end, a major reorganisation effort has been undertaken, which has seen the space WikiProjects separated into the Astronomy, Solar System and Spaceflight groups, with WikiProject Space being abolished. We have also seen the child projects of WikiProject Spaceflight being abolished, with Timeline of Spaceflight becoming a working group, and the Unmanned and Human Spaceflight projects becoming task forces for now, with some suggestions that they should be abolished outright. The problem with the previous structure was that there were too many different groups of editors, and nobody was sure which projects were supposed to be doing what. Now there is only one project, this is somewhat clearer, but spaceflight is still a huge topic. Another way to improve the activity of the project is to attract more editors. Spaceflight is a topic which many people have at least a very casual interest in, and therefore it is strange that there are only about four or five people regularly participating in discussions on the project talk page. Evidently action is needed to raise the profile of the project. One way in which the project's profile can be raised is to have a major success associated with it. The creation of a featured topic could be one such success, and would also be hugely beneficial to articles in the area that it relates to. Space Stations are one of the most high-profile and notable areas of spaceflight, and are therefore a logical choice to spearhead such an initiative. To this end, in late December a working group was established to concentrate and coordinate efforts to establish featured topics related to space stations. An initial proposal calls for topics on Skylab, Salyut, Mir and the International Space Station, as well as one on space stations in general. There is currently an effort to get Mir promoted to Good Article status; the article currently requires a copyedit, after which it will be sent for peer review and then to GAN. This is by no means a short-term project. There are many articles, particularly for the larger space stations such as the ISS and Mir, which are currently nowhere near becoming recognised content. Skylab is the smallest of the proposed featured topics, but it still requires that three C-class articles, two Start-class articles and a redirect all reach at least Good Article status, with at least three becoming Featured Articles. The ISS topic is so large that it may have to be subdivided. I don't expect that we will have any featured topics by the end of the year, but I believe that a Good Topic, which requires all articles reach at least GA status, but does not require any featured articles, may be possible. I also believe that several articles on the subject can easily be improved to Good Article status, and some articles may be at featured level by the end of the year. In the long term, having featured topics will benefit the project and its content. Selected Article – Salyut 2 Salyut 2 was an early space station, launched in 1973 as part of the Salyut and Almaz programmes. It malfunctioned two days after launch, and consequently was never visited by a manned Soyuz mission. The Salyut 2 article describes the station: “ Salyut 2 (OPS-1)(Russian: Салют-2; English: Salute 2) was launched April 4, 1973. It was not really a part of the same program as the other Salyut space stations, instead being the highly classified prototype military space station Almaz. It was given the designation Salyut 2 to conceal its true nature. Despite its successful launch, within two days the as-yet-unmanned Salyut 2 began losing pressure and its flight control failed; the cause of the failure was likely due to shrapnel piercing the station when the discarded Proton rocket upper stage that had placed it in orbit later exploded nearby. On April 11, 1973, 11 days after launch, an unexplainable accident caused the two large solar panels to be torn loose from the space station cutting off all power to the space station. Salyut 2 re-entered on May 28, 1973. ” The article is currently assessed as start class, and is in need of attention. It consists of the above paragraph, along with a list of specifications and an infobox. The article needs to be rewritten in a more encyclopaedic style, and with more information about the space station. It has not yet been determined whether Salyut 2 would have to be included in a featured topic about the Salyut programme, or whether since it was never manned it is less integral to the topic, however if its inclusion were necessary then in its current form it would be a major impediment to this. Downlink readers are encouraged to improve this article, with a view to getting it to B-class and possibly a viable Good Article candidate by the end of the month. Published by WikiProject Spaceflight, if you have any content you wish to include in future newsletters, please contribute

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Strongest Storm in the NIO Basin

Sorry for the late reply, Typhoon gay formed in the Pacific ocean and was official named Gay by the JMA. When Gay entered into the Bay of Bangal, it was monitored as Cyclone Gay by the IMD. The pressure of cyclone seems to have been monitored by the JMA so it is unofficial as long as it is in the Indian ocean. Typhoon gay article itself mentions that the lowest pressure is an Unofficial estimate. So, we cant judge weather it is the strongest storm or not. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 08:59, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Ohk! Thanks..Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 09:58, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Cyclone yemyin

Since you are from india....I just want to know why did not your Indian Met office give name to Cyclone Yemyin??? Why were they giving false info about it??? Was it because it was striking Pakistan??? Shocking news at http://www.wunderground.com/blog/MargieKieper/comment.html?entrynum=174&tstamp=200706 HunterZone (talk) 09:50, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

The PMD referred to the deep depression as Tropical Cyclone Yemyin, the next name on the list at the time. The IMD did not operationally name the system, but the depression was upgraded to a cyclonic storm in post-analysis, and the IMD retroactively named it Yemyin.

I think that there was a mistake in identifying the storm's intensity. RSMC New Delhi only names systems that have attained cyclone intensity.

And also that the India-Pakistan issue is very sensitive issue. Until given a proper reason, neither of the govts. should be blamed. Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 10:51, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Accoring to PMD, Yemyin had 80 mph winds before landfall..any way thankz..HunterZone (talk) 11:16, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

The Downlink: Issue 2

The Downlink
Your source for news on WikiProject Spaceflight	Issue 2, February 2011
Project News · News from Orbit · Article News · The Charts · Yuri Gagarin Project News A report on popular pages from December 2010 revealed surprising trends in readers' interests. Boeing X-37 was the most popular article within the project's scope, with SpaceX Dragon in second with Global Positioning System in third place. The top seven articles were all assessed as C-class, with the remainder of the top ten being Good Articles. It was noted with some concern that moon landing conspiracy theories was more popular than moon landing. A discussion regarding whether missiles warranted inclusion within the project scope was conducted, and resulted in the continued inclusion of missiles. The last remaining articles tagged with the banner of the former Human Spaceflight WikiProject were re-tagged with the WikiProject Spaceflight banner. The last banner was removed on 8 January, and the template has since been deleted. The project is thankful to ChiZeroOne for his work in this field. Concerns were raised that the new article reporting system was not working correctly, however it was noted that there is sometimes a delay before articles appear on the list. Discussion regarding the existence of the separate spaceflight and space exploration category structures led to a mass CfD being filed on 10 January to abolish the space exploration categories, merging them into their counterparts in the spaceflight category structure. This was successful, and the exploration categories have been removed. Several other categorisation issues remain unresolved. A proposal was made to standardise some of the infoboxes used by the project, the future of Template:Infobox spacecraft (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) was discussed, and design work began on a replacement. Template:Rocket specifications-all (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) was nominated for deletion and subsequently kept due to extant substitutions, however it was noted that the template had been deprecated by WikiProject Rocketry. Concerns were also raised that the existing infoboxes were not well-equipped to handle spacecraft which operated in more than one orbit, or whose orbits changed over the course of their missions (which in practise is most of them). Five members of the project gave interviews for the Wikipedia Signpost, and a report on the project, authored by SMasters (talk · contribs), is expected to be published in the 7 February edition of the Signpost. It is hoped that this will raise interest in and awareness of the project. News from orbit Four orbital launches were conducted in January, beginning on 20 January with the launch of Elektro-L No.1 on the first Zenit-3F rocket. This was followed later the same day by the launch of a Delta IV Heavy with the USA-224 reconnaissance satellite. The articles for USA-224 and the Zenit-3F rocket could use some expansion, whilst the Elektro-L No.1 satellite needs its own article. On 22 January, an H-IIB launched the second H-II Transfer Vehicle, Kounotori 2, to resupply the International Space Station. It arrived at the station on 27 January. Less than a day after its arrival, another cargo mission was launched to the station; Progress M-09M departed Baikonur early in the morning of 28 January, docking on 30 January. In addition to payloads to resupply the station, the Progress spacecraft is carrying a small subsatellite, Kedr, which will be deployed in February. Kedr does not currently have an article. Progress M-08M departed on 24 January to make the Pirs module available for Progress M-09M, and has since reentered the atmosphere. Its article needs to be updated to reflect the successful completion of its mission. The NanoSail-D2 satellite, which failed to deploy from FASTSAT in December, unexpectedly separated from its parent craft and began operations on 18 January, with its solar sail deploying on 21 January. Nine orbital launches are scheduled to occur in February, beginning with the launch of the first Geo-IK-2 satellite; Geo-IK-2 No.11, atop a Rokot/Briz-KM, on the first day of the month. Articles need to be written for the Geo-IK-2 series of satellites, as well as for Geo-IK-2 No.11 itself, and the Briz-KM upper stage that will be used to insert it into orbit. A Minotaur I rocket will launch NRO L-66, a classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office, on 5 February. The payload has not yet been identified, however once more details are known, it will need an article. Iran is expected to launch the Rasad 1 and Fajr 1 satellites in February, with 14 February the reported launch date. The satellites will fly aboard a single rocket; either the first Simorgh or the third Safir. Once this launch occurs, the satellites will need articles, and the article on their carrier rocket will require updating. The second Automated Transfer Vehicle, Johannes Kepler, is scheduled to launch on 15 February to resupply the ISS. Docking is expected to occur on 23 February. 23 February will also see the much-delayed launch of Glory atop a Taurus-XL 3110 rocket. This will be the first Taurus launch since the launch failure in early 2009 which resulted in the loss of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory. In addition to Glory, three CubeSats will be deployed; KySat-1, Hermes and Explorer-1 [PRIME]. KySat and Hermes require articles, whilst the article on Explorer-1 [PRIME] needs to be updated. On 24 February, a Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat rocket will launch the first Glonass-K1 satellite; Glonass-K1 No.11. Articles are needed for the series of spacecraft, as well as for the specific satellite being launched. It is likely that a Kosmos designation will be given to the payload when it reaches orbit. In the evening of 24 February, Space Shuttle Discovery will begin its final mission, STS-133, carrying the Permanent Multipurpose Module, a conversion of the Leonardo MPLM, to the ISS. Other payloads include an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier, and the Robonaut2 experimental robot. The first manned mission of 2011, Discovery's six-man crew will transfer equipment to the station, and two EVAs will be performed. The launch has already been scrubbed five times, before Discovery was rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building to inspect and repair cracks on its External Tank. At some point in February, a Long March 3B rocket is expected to launch two navigation satellites; Compass-M2 and Compass-M3, as part of the Compass navigation system. The date of this launch is currently unknown. Both satellites will require articles once more information is available. A PSLV launch, carrying the Resourcesat-2, X-Sat and YouthSat spacecraft, is expected to launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre towards the end of the month, probably between 20 and 23 February. Stop press: The Rokot launch was conducted at 14:00 UTC on 1 February, and at the time of writing it appears to have ended in failure, due to a suspected upper stage malfunction. The spacecraft is in orbit, it is not clear at the time of writing whether it will be salvageable. Article news Reaction Engines Skylon is currently undergoing peer review, its discussion page can be found at Wikipedia:Peer review/Reaction Engines Skylon/archive1. A user requested feedback on major changes which had been made to the article, however at the time of writing no responses have been offered. Following up on the issues covered in the last issue, the requested move of Missile Range Instrumentation Ship to Tracking ship was successful, with the article being renamed. The discussion concerning types of launch and landing resulted in a proposal to merge VTVL into VTOL, however this has been met with some opposition. Several other options have been suggested on Talk:VTVL. The large scale deletion of mis-tagged Soviet images on Commons went ahead, with most of the useful ones having already been backed-up locally under fair use criteria. Discussion was held regarding the naming of spaceflight-related articles. Concerns were raised regarding inconsistency in article titles and disambiguators. A project guideline was adopted to standardise titles, with the parenthesised disambiguators "(satellite)" and "(spacecraft)" being adopted as standards for spacecraft, and the exclusion of manufacturers' names from article titles was recommended. Issues regarding Japanese spacecraft with two names, the correct names for early Apollo missions, and dealing with acronyms and abbreviated names remain unresolved. 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Hello there

Hi Rishabh, missing you in the Pune meetups! AshLin (talk) 15:44, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Keep a watch on this link!

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Keep a watch on this link for meetups! AshLin (talk) 16:39, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much sir. I'll surely attend Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 16:43, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Date change! Note, there is dinner afterward! AshLin (talk) 13:36, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Noted. Well, ill try my best to be till dinner, because i live a little far from Atur Center, and i get my last PMT bus by 9:15 PM. Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 17:29, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks for the info. It was my first nomination so i expected corrections. Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 14:18, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Blog entry of WikiPuneri Meetup 14

Hi Rishabh, It would help me if you could make a draft blog entry for the Saturday meetup. You can forward it to me by email. I'll make some additions/changes and send it back to you. Then you can send it to the three mailing lists, & WikiPuneri. It would be a great help as I have too many things to do! Will you do that? AshLin (talk) 07:37, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Sure but my lappie's keyboard got messed up, and i'm typing now with the on-screen keyboard, which makes typing tough. It will take time. Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 07:47, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

No issues, can it be done in a couple of days? AshLin (talk) 07:54, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

2 days? Well i couldn't be able to as the engineer will return my laptop in 3 or 4 days...sorry for that... Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 08:15, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Never mind then. AshLin (talk) 08:40, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi, any chance your laptop is back & you can write it up. My WikiConference load has increased like crazy. AshLin (talk) 13:00, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Sorry sir. There's no chance now. My laptop's gone. It cannot be repaired. I will have to buy a new one now. Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 13:28, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

If you remember the key points & list them on my talk, I'll fashion something out of it. AshLin (talk) 21:46, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Godavari Arch Bridge

I have expanded this artcile and re-posted in today's date since is a subject of my interest. In future, please ensure that the articles are fully referenced (preferably google books and official web sites of govt. and international organizations but no travel sites) and of minimum length of 1600 ch (prose part only without infobox and headings) while posting on DYK.--Nvvchar. 15:07, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you sir for your expansion of the article. I was struggling to get some information to expand this article for about an year. Thank you very much Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 15:36, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the Barnstar. The article is now approved on the DYK. I am sure you would be able to update the other articles on Godavari bridges that you have posted with the many refrences that I have provided in the Godavari Arch Bridge article. Cheers.--Nvvchar. 12:41, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Godavari Arch Bridge

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Congrats on a DYK! Is this your first? AshLin (talk) 21:47, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Yes! Proud to have one on my name. Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 05:31, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

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New weebly? Great Idea!

Rishabh, its a great idea. Go ahead. You can add last meetup's notes on it to begin with. Nice to know you have computer access again. Blogs need to be maintained, don't forget! They are like pets, need regular loving care. :) AshLin (talk) 12:42, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Sure, sir. They'll be in the Meetup section in a day or two. Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 12:47, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Regarding Puneri Blog....

Hey Rishabh thanks a lot for keeping me informed about the blog. Well the blog looks cool, Some suggestions from me.

1. If possible can we have a proper logo for Wikipuneri blog. (Need not be official.

2. The pics which you uploaded are good, do you have some more and i think those pics should be only in the gallery tab.

3. Can you just give a brief about the meetups as to what they are and also somethings about the previous meetups in the MEETUP tab. May be you can also write some minutes of the previous meetups.

4. Also in the contact tab we need to put a Contact Form so that we are updated about the comments.

5. A link to the wikipedia meetup pune page. i.e http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune would look good to keep them informed.

I think thats all for now, will suggest more as when i remember.

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Newsletter

Go ahead! :) AshLin (talk) 14:43, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

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Hello! You are free to delete it. It is outdated now and will be of no use. Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 09:42, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

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Great. Remember in single brackets, complete url is required, not truncated as you did on my page. AshLin (talk) 17:18, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Ok... i'll remember that :) Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 17:20, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

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im not getting the info. required to expand the article. Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 12:55, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

The info that is required to expand the article is in Reunions ATCR and the JTWC BT, also Google news says its got 23 results when you click on archives.13:25, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Geralda

I hope you dont mind but im gonna help you flesh the article out a bit.Jason Rees (talk) 01:10, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Yeah sure :) Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 09:56, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Userpage....

Um...its still okay.. but... did you actually copy my User page?! --Anirudh Emani (talk) 14:43, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Oops, yea...forgot to tell u that...i'll edit it. Sorry Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 15:06, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Hey, its still okay. And oh.... I wont be there at the WikiConference.. :( But we can still stay connected on Facebook. Here is my facebook profile. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 05:48, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

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File:Tropical Cyclone Average Track worldwide.svg

Hey, I was wondering where you got the data for this map, as it is highly misleading. For starters, most Pacific hurricanes move out to sea (very few make landfall), most Atlantic storms move through Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico (few go as far north as the northern of the two lines represent), there are four lines for the north Indian Ocean (even though that is the least active basin on the planet), and the South Pacific storms seem to originate north of the equator. I removed the image for those reasons. Cheers ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 15:41, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Cool! Well, you should try and keep it somewhat proportional as far as the lines. Why should NIO have four lines but the EPAC only one, even though the EPAC has twice the activity. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 16:53, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

I still don't get, why are there four lines in the northern Indian Ocean? I understand NIO had four lines, but that's because that's the nearby basin. For a worldwide article, every basin should be properly represented. I'm just curious, how come you want to add it in the first place? Given that every TC has a unique track, I'm wondering why you really want to add it in. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:39, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

I'm curious what your rhyme or reason is for the tracks. For example, lots of storms form in the Mozambique Channel or the Gulf of Carpentaria (northern gulf in Australia). Are you solely basing it off of that IMD map? Or something else? Here is a free (PD) version of the map you seem to want. That seems more useful, since it differentiates basins and highlights the equator. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:53, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Yea, check out that link I gave though. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:56, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Well wait, I guess I should be asking, why are you making a map when a perfectly free image is available? --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 18:33, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

What do you mean "recreate"? ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 18:57, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Why don't you just upload the NOAA map then? --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 13:17, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

This is plenty big! It doesn't need to be that big for an image on the side of an article. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 05:21, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Hurricanehink the details need to be correct though since TC's can and do form to the East of Fiji ie within the Western Hemisphere. In fact for obvious reasons, I would suggest that the gap between hemispheres in that map gets placed within the Atlantic just west of Africa.Jason Rees (talk) 17:02, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

But you can't possibly include where every possible data point for tropical cyclones are. For however many storms there are east of Fiji in the western Hemisphere, I'd bet there are as many, if not more, that form in the northeastern Atlantic near the Azores, and yet that would be highly misleading to include that as a common area of formation. The NOAA map is just a generic map to show in general where the basins are and where the storms generally go. It is a good map. If people want more detail, they can see the map Nilfanion made where it has every single data point for every tropical cyclone on record. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:25, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

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Please show the direct link to the source of the image you uploaded to Wikipedia. Thank you. Earth100 (talk) 03:43, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Ok, will do it next time, thanks :) Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 13:35, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

For example: X. Source:http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov ✔. Source:http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/wms/?zoom=5&lat=-16.87793&lon=160.16895&layers=B0000FFFFT&datum1=04/09/2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Earth100 (talk • contribs) 11:31, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes did it this time. Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 13:35, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

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