In the case of Freddie Mercury who belonged to an Indian ethnic community - the Parsis, had family ties in Mumbai, lived there for a few years, a case could perhaps be made. But not Horrocks. I cannot say about Cliff Richards.

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On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Vickram Crishna <vvcrishna@radiophony.com> wrote:


On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Srikanth, but I'm surprised you come across it at all. Brian Horrocks was a British general, from the British Army (not from British Indian Arny), did not serve in India, not involved in any campaign where Indian troops served (except North Africa). Generally famous in the Indian context for his exploits with the White Russians (Kolchak's Gold) and for Operation Market Garden (Aacted by Edward Fox in "A bridge too far") but nothing to do with India except for the accidental fact of his birth.

While acknowledging all the points made wrt Gen Horrocks' life, I can't help but feel that it parallels another couple of Britishers of more recent times who are treated (in some circles in India at least) as locals: Cliff Richards (born Harry Webb in Lucknow) and the late Freddy Mercury (born Fardoon Bulsara, early years in Bombay), both well-known entertainers. It may be OT to the discussion on Horrocks, but it does raise some thought about what we do and perhaps should take as subjects of Indian interest. Having said which, I have not participated at all in the India project, so please  feel free to ignore my suggestion. 
 
 


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Ashwin Baindur
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <parakara.ghoda@gmail.com> wrote:
Aswin,
true, I don't have it on my talk page, but most India editors do stumble across the page every few weeks. We all used to, back in 2009.
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur@gmail.com> wrote:
Agreed in principle with Pradeep, but let some talk of content take place here. I'm sure the majority of wikimedia-l readers do not have WT:IN on their watchlist.


Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <parakara.ghoda@gmail.com> wrote:


On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Pradeep Mohandas <pradeep.mohandas@hotmail.com> wrote:
I think the list should be used more as a helpful pointer and as much discussion as possible should be done on Wikipedia itself. I think there are more lists than Wikipedians can handle and more time is spent on the lists than on editing Wikipedia, which is what we're primarily here for.

+1. 

warm regards,
Pradeep

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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:14:00 +0530
From: parakara.ghoda@gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [[Brian Horrocks]] not an Indian FA


I agree more with Swaroop, but since the English wikipedia is picking itself up and dusting itself again, we may want one.
--Re,

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Swaroop Rao <raul.swaroop@gmail.com> wrote:
Good idea, but then, shouldn't we be using WT:IN for these? :)


Swaroop Rao
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 21:47, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline@gmail.com> wrote:
I think what Srikanth meant is, creating a separate mailing list for English wikipedians from India to discuss their topics of interest. I too think that is a good idea.

Shiju



On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur@gmail.com> wrote:
Is that what you mean, Srikanth?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Recognized_content

I was also not aware till Pranav dhowed me the link today.


Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <parakara.ghoda@gmail.com> wrote:
Ashwin,
I think the Indian English community needs a list of it's own.
Re,

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur@gmail.com> wrote:
I found TinuCherianBot had mistakenly made Brian Horrocks, a British Army general unconnected with India except for his birth, as part of WikiProject India, a false positive. Sorry guys, he has nothing to do with us. We are now down another FA.

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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