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RfA candidate S O N S% Ending (UTC) Time left Dups? Report Voorts 102 4 3 96 21:06, 8 November 2024 4 days, 18 hours no report RfB candidate S O N S% Ending (UTC) Time left Dups? Report Last updated by cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online at 02:50, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

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References

WP:MOS - Manual of Style
MOS:TV - Manual of Style for Television
MOS:FILM - Manual of Style for Film
WP:FILM/R - Reliable sources for film
WP:ELNO - Links to be avoided

Disruption

WP:AIV - Administrator intervention against vandalism
WP:SPI - Sockpuppet investigations

Other

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User:Yapperbot/Pruner - A way to automatically prune inactive and/or indeffed users from member lists, like Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Members

Policy / Guidelines

WP:CIVIL - Civility guidelines
WP:NPOV - Neutral point of view
WP:NOT - What Wikipedia is not
WP:OVERLINK - Wikilinks and overlinking
WP:PEACOCK - Peacock words and phrases
WP:INFOBOXFLAG - National flags in Infoboxes
WP:FILMCRITICLIST - This is why we should only include notable awards (and film festival showings) in articles. This guy is the most film-festivalled short film maker in the world, apparently, yet nobody has ever written an article about his films.

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• RFC: "Crore" supersedes MOS:COMMONALITY in Indian articles.
• RfC: Religion in biographical infoboxes
• User:TonyBallioni/Just block the /64
• Special:Undelete
• Database query - Find all revisions of a page that match given revision. See also WP:NS for namespace codes.
• Use of ISC as a post-nominal.

Indian entertainment

• An article about "Dialogue writers"
• "TV actors question the curious case of missing end credit rolls"

The problem with awards hysteria is...

• The Star Parivaar Awards are a promotional, self-aggrandising award where the Star television network lavishes praise on shows and actors that appear on its own network. See this RFC.
• See WP:DADASAHEB - Short story: the name of an exclusive national lifetime achievement award, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, has been co-opted by award mills, and diluted in the media by journalists who ask no follow-up questions.
• That embarassing time when all of India's entertainment rags erroneously interpreted a search result as Google bestowing the "National Crush of India" award to Rashmika Mandanna, despite the fact that Google does not issue awards.
• Sidharth Shukla wins Times Men of the Year award, wait, not Time's Man of the Year? India's awards now following naming conventions of bootleg sneakers.

Corruption in Indian cinema

• Article at LiveMint.com - "Why Indian box office collections depend on who you ask. For the 103-year-old Indian film industry, there is no single authentic source that reports box-office collections of movies"
• Times of India - "Box Office column discontinued"
• The Caravan - "Counting Crores: Why Indian films’ box-office figures do not add up"
• The New Indian Express - "Bilingual films: The big, bilingual scam"
• Paid news in India

Searches

Extended content

"Background Muppets" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - See WP:MUPPETSLTA, there is an Indiana-based vandal and a California-based vandal. "Muppet cameos" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) "Not Featured Muppets" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) "Prem Khan" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - See: Washim Rahman "Washim Rahman" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - same as above "Komail Shayan"( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - Name has been submitted hundreds of times dating back to June 2016. Name has never been accompanied by a reference, and in 99.99% of the cases, it was submitted by an Iranian IP-hopper. (Ex: 5.209.250.52, 89.196.133.241, 5.239.147.207, 37.129.203.41, 151.235.1.131, etc.) Submitting users have never participated in discussion. User also has competence issues, like here where they generate wikilinks off another person's name. Note also that despite their assertion the Shayan was involved in this, his name doesn't appear at iTunes. The wikilink fail is also seen here and it is a fairly common thing they do. Same here where an Iranian IP stuffs his name into an article, when there are zero reliable sources to substantiate it. The push by Iranian IPs is also very bizarre. Note also this addition in February 2018, which was picked up by Firstpost. The addition by the Iranian IP is clear vandalism, since the film's music credits do not mention either Komail Shayan or A. R. Rahman. "KomailShayan"( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) [[Komail]] [[Shayan]] ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) [[Komail]] ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) Komail-Shivaan ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) "declared as blockbuster" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) "declared as super-hit" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) "all-time blockbuster status" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) "all-time blockbuster" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) "GBA" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) "Google Boys Arimalam" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) "Google Boys" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) "Ghost Forest" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - More Google Boys Arimalam crap "Sunil Subramani" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - Chiefly, keep an eye out for article creation. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sunil Subramani "Prashast Singh" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - Sockpuppet hoaxer - Block evasion: [[Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Superheroprashast/Archive|Superheroprashast]] "Aa Gun Thaam" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - Created Aa Gun Thaam June 14, 2017 116.75.231.182 "SuperMarioLogan" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - Vanity article for YouTuber. "Akshay Bardapurkar" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - Amitbhb12 article spam "Shreyas Shringarpure" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - See Shani (TV series) and user Socialmediaharsh - looks like promotional push to create articles and stuff this guy into existing articles. "Darien Amos" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - Problematic South African IP hopper. Discovered April 10, 2017, but has been active since at least December 2016.[1] "Tenn-Speed" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) "Linda Mbuso" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) "Sangamithra" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) As of May 2017, article Sangamithra has been created three times, with zero attempts to establish principal photography. Looks very much like paid editing scenario. "Vishaw Kalra" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - September 2017 - a kid, Kalra Vishaw, took to creating vanity articles about himself and his ebooks. "Kalra Vishaw" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) "Ishaqzaade Returns" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - Hoax article he created about an alleged 2020 movie based on one of his novels. "Jannat Zubair Rahmani" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - December 2017, see Kanakaggarawal29 disruptive edits. "Bibhu Aggarawal Jannat" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) "Aghbhaata - The Mystery" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - December 2017 - Someone started casually spamming this.[2][3][4] "Aghbhaata" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) "Hamara Tiranga" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) "Virendra Singh Patyal" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - Feb 2019 - See Saims243, a sock of Sscomputers201 "Bhaumik Gondaliya" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - Nov 2019 - Brought to my attention by Kailash. Problem flared up in early October 2019,[5] but I found a 2016 instance here at Rustom (film). Persistent vanity additions of "Bhaumik Gondaliya" into the producer and/or starring parameters of Indian film articles, typically Hindi. IP hopper from Gujarati. Gondaliya's name does not appear on the Rustom film poster, so this name appears to always be a disruptive inclusion. "Gondaliya Films" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - Per this "Amin Aminem" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - Nov 2019 - Repeatedly recreated article despite AfD. Possible sockpuppetry of Sirisecure "Rakesh Krushna Joshi" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - June 2020 - Repeated submission See Jayant Mahagate who was working hard at submitting this 17-year-old's name into articles. See also Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Arshifakhan61. "Rakesh Joshi" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - August 2020 - Hoax content written about a nobody who is trying to fake his way into Wikipedia. Appears to be caused by Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Arshifakhan61 "Chiranjiv Makwana" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - August 2020 - Hoax content written about a nobody who is trying to fake his way into Wikipedia. Appears to be caused by Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Arshifakhan61 "Medha Shri Dahiya" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - July 2020 - User Diya.diya23 was repeatedly adding content written by this person into articles. As of this note (24 July 2020) there are only two mentions of this person's name in the encyclopedia, and they're in the references at Om Swami. "Prarambha" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - November 2020 - Film article related to Vijayclicker93 sock farm. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AjKa180. "Priyanka Chincholi" ( wp gwp g bwp b | eb co gct sw arc ht ) - November 2020 - Same as above. Vijayclicker93. Likely UPE. "Umesh Kaushik" ( wp g b ) - November 2020 - Kept adding his name to Indian films claiming to be an editor. He claimed to have edited Toilet: Ek Prem Katha. I checked the credits and didn't find him. Attempted twice to create Draft:Umesh kaushik. "betraveler.in" - spam "arcturus.io" - spam - see SerialAgent "jackace.in" - spam - see Shahadat Shefat "madrascinephile.com" - spam - see Shankar Iyer 7 and 43.231.58.67 circa Aug 2019 "gaharwarji.com" - spam - see Gaharwarji and Anupamsingh02 - July-November 2019 Links: Indian Society of Cinematographers (6 ISC links as of 4 August 2019, had previously been 12. A total of 14 links to the general cinematography page as of the same date) Issue was with spam from this organisation and persistent disruption of forcing "ISC" as post-nominal initials. Also they were adding ISC in the |title= param of infobox. See consensus here "sacnilk.com" - spam, originally, but also a garbage reference. Circa 2020-2021.