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25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Hello, I'm SerChevalerie. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person{{spaces|1}}on :2020 Bangalore riots ↗, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source ↗, so I removed it. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people ↗, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page ↗. Thank you!  SerChevalerie (talk) 05:41, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

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August 2020

25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to :Swarajya (magazine) ↗, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary ↗. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted ↗. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox ↗ for that. Thank you. <span style="background-color:#B2BEB5;padding:2px 12px 2px 12px;font-size:10px"><span style="color:#660000">'''Tayi Arajakate'''</span> <sub><span style="color:#660000">'''Talk'''</span></sub></span> 01:43, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
:For further clarification, see WP:lead ↗ which says "{{talk quote inline|The lead serves as an introduction to the article and a ''summary of its most important contents''.}}" (emphasis mine). As a summary, repeating what is in the article body is perfectly normal. Whether the content you removed is significant enough for the lead and sufficiently summarised I make no comment, but "repetitive sentences" is clearly not a valid reason for removing something from the lead unless the repetition is happening in the lead itself. Nil Einne (talk) 06:40, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

September 2020

25px|alt=Warning icon ↗ Please stop your disruptive editing ↗. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's no original research policy ↗ by adding your personal analysis or synthesis ↗ into articles, as you did at :Agnivesh ↗, you may be blocked from editing ↗.  <span style="background-color:#B2BEB5;padding:2px 12px 2px 12px;font-size:10px"><span style="color:#660000">'''Tayi Arajakate'''</span> <sub><span style="color:#660000">'''Talk'''</span></sub></span> 04:11, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

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::Entirely constructive. The lead wasn't written with MOS:LEAD ↗ but drive-by POV pushing infected it. You are free to add sources that completely support the disputed content per WP:VERIFY ↗. But don't use MOS:LEAD ↗ to justify POV pushing on lead. Shankargb (talk) 13:44, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

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:{{ping|Doug Weller}} Are the DS alerts in one area not valid for another area? You gave one to this editor in August 2020 and giving a second one under a year from the last.. Why? Vikram Vincent 05:11, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
::: Actually, the above two templates concern DS alerts of the two different conflicting areas than the one about which Doug Weller alerted 6 months ago. Shankargb (talk) 05:30, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
::::It sounds like Vincenvikram knows they are in different areas already. In answer to Vincentvikram question, yes, DS alerts are only valid for the area they are given in. See Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions#aware.aware ↗. The requirement is that people are aware that discretionary sanctions are in place for the specific area covered, not just in general. Being aware that there are discretionary sanctions for electronic cigarettes obviously doesn't mean you are aware they are also discretionary sanctions for the Shakespeare authorship question. Nil Einne (talk) 06:12, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

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25px|alt=Information icon|link= ↗ Please '''stop''' changing the names of places in our articles, to different names to those used as our article titles, as you did at Faizabad district ↗. We use the Common names ↗ in English for our articles, not the "Official names ↗", so changing the name breaks internal links to those articles, and is confusing to our readers - thank you - Arjayay (talk) 20:52, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

:The common name does not exist any more. I am not sure whether you visited Ayodhya recently. All the buses display the name as Ayodhya, Railway stations are known as Ayodhya and Ayodhya Cantt and the Airport shows the name Ayodhya International Airport. Only the wokes, libbies, lefties and anti-nationals are in denial mode even after the name change 5 years back. Shankargb (talk) 21:03, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
::Actually, "Ayodhya district" is so ''un''common in reliable sources (as opposed to your anecdotal evidence] that Google Ngrams doesn't even recognise it. ↗ Dāsānudāsa (talk) 09:52, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

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:You are the one vandalizing, not allowing the users to make the genuine corrections. I may be forced to lodge a complaint against you. Shankargb (talk) 21:09, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

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India-Pakistan border conflicts article vandalism

Hello Shankargb, I saw you recently reverted Shoriful islam46 for his apparent vandalism in inserting false Indian casualty information in this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%9321_India%E2%80%93Pakistan_border_skirmishes ↗. He has proceeded to do the same on four other articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_India%E2%80%93Pakistan_border_skirmish ↗https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_India%E2%80%93Pakistan_border_skirmishes ↗https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%E2%80%932015_India%E2%80%93Pakistan_border_skirmishes ↗https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E2%80%932018_India%E2%80%93Pakistan_border_skirmishes ↗ despite being reverted. I could use your help in keeping his vandalism under control and reverting him. Thanks in advance! EkoGraf (talk) 20:35, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

:Sure. Will do the needful. Thanks Shankargb (talk) 21:10, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
::Thank you as well. I have additionally reported the situation to the administrator's noticeboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Vandalism_by_Shoriful_islam46 ↗, and you can leave your observations/comments there as well if you feel it. EkoGraf (talk) 21:20, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

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India–Pakistan title move discussion

Hello {{ping|Shankargb}}! I saw that you took part in a discussion at Talk:2008 India–Pakistan standoff ↗ regarding moving the article's title. I have started a request move at Talk:Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts ↗ on moving it to India–Pakistan wars and conflicts. If you would like to take part in the discussion, please do so! Birla Kashyap 14:39, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Forced conversion ↗

The goa inquisition sub section has a lot of questionable reference and claims related to it Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 11:11, 21 February 2026 (UTC)