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_In the Shadow of the Great Game_ (I think), in which he says he was the aide-de-camp of Lord Mountbatten at the time when the British wanted to partition India, but for appearance's sake, wanted Jinnah to claim it as his idea. I haven't read the book, but I did see his letter to the _Times of India_, which stirred up a storm of controversy, having revealed important political secrets kept for sixty years. He was the ambassador to Spain, France, Switzerland, and perhaps other countries, and retired as the CEO of Nestle's of India to become its chairman emeritus, if I recall correctly. I've often wondered what his palace is like. When I was in New Delhi, I went to the office of some cartographic agency to find Sarila, but they told me it didn't exist, and I believed them. Oh, well. It was so long ago!

1970:- Acronyms in the lead section... I try to avoid them whenever possible. :) I tend to approach it like this: If a term is only used once, I use the full expansion ("command-line interface") with a wikilink to the article, but I don't define the acronym (CLI). If a term is used twice, I'll use the full expansion. If it's used more than twice, then I'll put the aconym in brackets and use that. We're tech people, so yeah, it's easy to get caught up in the alphabet soup we all seem to love so much, but it's good to avoid it in the lead section to make it easier for people who are very new to the subject. 2104:

a huge celebration. Five "jumbo jets" (Boeing 747s) were chartered just to carry visitors from the US, and several more for other countries. By chance, I was on one of the earliest planes to arrive and the last to leave, so I spent about six weeks there, including two or three in New Delhi and the rest in and around Hardiwar. It was marvelous, despite the poor sanitation at the guru's ashram, which made lots of people sick for a while with dysentery. I became a volunteer amateur pharmacist specializing in one pill, Metronidazole, which, needless to say, was (temporarily) my favorite drug. ;-)

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System.ComponentModel.Design.Data System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization System.Configuration.Assemblies System.Configuration.Install System.Configuration.Internal System.Configuration.Provider System.Data.Common System.Data.Design System.Data.Linq System.Data.Linq.Mapping System.Data.Linq.SqlClient System.Data.Linq.SqlClient.Implementation System.Data.Odbc System.Data.OleDb System.Data.OracleClient System.Data.Sql System.Data.SqlClient System.Data.SqlTypes

3919: 3858: 3797: 3736: 1076: 1020: 1332: 348: 298: 248: 151: 1788:, is adding warning messages to user pages without any reason... What should be done...? His edit counts are just 4, of which three edits are to warn me of vandalism twice (without any reason) and another person once... I suspect some sort of "sock puppetry" here... Is there a way to assure this? I've not seen any newbie using vandal warning templates this early...! 2534:". Now, the way I understand it, BCL is just a collection of namespaces, and their classes, within the FCL. So, the FCL article should list all the namespaces and the BCL article should only list the BCL namespaces. Whereas I'm not close to being a professional, I might be wrong. I started a discussion on the BCL's talkpage. Cheers. -- 1432:

who's adding a lot of this information, often without citations at all, or the text doesn't match the given citations, or he's citing his own blog. I've been accused of being a Mac fanboy because I'm removing the text -- I'm sure you'll see the irony in that. :-) ... but there is some value to the content, it just need some work.

1967:- The lead needs a couple of additional references to cover some of the non-obvious & forward-looking statements like Microsoft's plans to incorporate PS as the back-end for future management tools. I know I've heard that before on one of the blogs or a Channel 9 interview, but it'd be good to link that up. 2302:

The answers are pretty good. But could do with some improvements. For example, the sysop chores answer, you did not pin point any area of interest. While that is good in some sense, admin responsibilities are too vast for one admin to be active in all. That way, it does give a sense that you want the

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In New Delhi, we stayed in an ashram in the Punjabi Bagh neighborhood. I witnessed an amazing wedding, and had a delightful breakfast in the home of some nice people I met outside the ashram. We woke every morning to the crowing of roosters and Islamic calls to prayer. I thought it was wonderful,

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I assume, by the name of the places you mention, that you're in India, a long way from my home in Miami, Florida, U.S.A. I've always been fascinated by and fond of India. In 1972, I went there, as one "premi," among thousands, of Guru Maharaj-ji, to celebrate his 13th birthday anniversary. It was

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straightened me out. I may not budge for "I have 10x as many edits as you", but I can read a consensus clearly. The self-cite, which I did to make a point, was spectacularly ill-considered given WP politics. I retain most of my concerns about overzealous sourcing requirements for self-evident facts,

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It's a fairly similar situation to what we dealt with last year on the Vista articles around criticism, quality of citations, and inline comparisons with other operating systems. This time it's a little different because we have a self-described security expert (which appears to really be the case)

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Hi Alex, hope everything is fine. :) Sorry to bother you again, but can you please upload a screenshot of Windows Vista which shows a mix of real and virtual folders (preferably no files in view)? Your screenshots tend to be much better looking than mine (How do you manage to capture the shadows and

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I’m from the Microsoft Parallel Computing team. We’re excited to see you writing about Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework. If you’d like to learn more about it, drop us a mail at pext2net microsoft com to set up a meeting in which we can show you more. Thank you for your interest. –Ed

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In 1971, I read in a newspaper that 30,000 jobs would arise in the new field of computer programming, so I went to school for that, but it's a long story. After a year and a half, I gave up (despite excelling at school) and decided to study piano technology (including piano tuning) instead, a wise

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A maharaja once proposed to my mother, and I've often wished she'd married him, but he was already married to one woman. I forget his name at the moment, but his son is Narendra Singh of Sarila, whom I met a few times in New York and once at his embassy in Madrid, and who has written a book called

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Later, people asked me whether I found India's poverty depressing; I found it moving, a bit overwhelming, but also inspiring. I found poverty oppressive in other countries, such as Mexico and Morocco, where I couldn't stop thinking "Why don't the government or the people do something about this?",

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Its OK, I can handle the screenshot. In fact, I am thinking of an alternate presentation in the article. Unfortunately, the sshot I visualized does not fit into the new format. I have to rethink the screenshot as well. May be this will be a chance to show off my window clippings skill. :p Sorry for

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is a convicted child predator that is serving a 130 year prison sentence after repeatedly molesting, torturing, and attempting to murder children. He was also suspected of murdering a child then disposing of the body through cannibalistic ways, but those charges were dropped after the boy's mother

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Thanks for the response. I should have realized this page is read by newcomers as well, so should have explained it properly. Anyways, "the project" refers to the entire wikipedia. Here, various informal (and topical) projects (called WikiProjects) are active which aim to bring articles related to

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Hey all your "rewritten" articles are fantastic and high-quality - PowerShell, SQL Server. You are perhaps the most quality contributor to Microsoft/Windows related articles. Do you know anyone else? I checked out the WikiProject Windows group but unfortunately, most people registered there don't

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claim to fame for the subject, it passes CSD. Verifying the suitability of the claim is not the job of CSD. So, if the article says some band is notable because it made the first release in year 200x, it passes CSD even if it turns up no web search hits. Do not delete such articles on CSD; rather

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Just because it was called "Media Player" instead of "windows media player" does NOT mean my addition was irrelevant or was incorrect. And no the name Windows Media Player was not introduced with Windows Me regardless of what you think as the name was infact introduced as early as Windows 98. And

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with the operating system infact title's the program as "Windows Media Player both in the application title and in the "about" section. I at this moment have not checked to see if this is so with the Media Player included with Windows 95 but I'd be more than happy to check. And finally, because

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offering. But it was not clear whether it will ship as a different product (or any inkling of the final name) or will the functionality be bundled into SharePoint. But it mentioned codenames of first two iterations (which the author collectively referred to as Microsoft MDM). So, I was at a loss

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Thank you, Soumyasch, for the compliment and encouragement you gave me on my talk page, and especially for the idea of changing my username. I didn't realize it would be a good idea, or that I could do it. Since my mnemonic for "021317" is "Oh, to unfree one's heaven!", I've decided to ask for

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OMG! How do you create such comprehensive articles with diagrams and technical details so fast and yet so high quality? If you are so fast, then you can "touch" all MS articles to make them high quality! Your speed almost seems super-human! I just sent you that message casually few hours ago!

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Also, listing all namespaces would be an overkill. Wiki articles are not to be intended as API documentation. Rather the current format of following up a namespace with a desc is much better. We will have to choose the most visible namespaces but we can give a much deatiled coverage than just

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My apologies. I got confused. They r indeed different. But after 1.1 release, the entire class library is informally called BCL, causing the confusion. The best way to tackle this, I think, would be to create a single article and explain the differences in the lead and then list namespaces in

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Yes the lists I started are taking a while but I'll get there. I've only read two of those five pillars on how to make a great article as I hate reading instructions but I'll eventually read them. I'm picking stuff up gradually like the stuff you showed me, and people putting in 'metropolitan

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was deleted, and though I never saw it, I'm pretty confident that it deserved to be. I am trying to get a wiki-appropriate article together, and would appreciate it if you could drop whatever text was on the page into a sub-page of my userpage. That will give me a starting point. Thank you.

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System.AddIn.Contract System.AddIn.Contract.Automation System.AddIn.Contract.Collections System.AddIn.Hosting System.AddIn.Pipeline System.CodeDom.Compiler System.Collections.Generic System.Collections.ObjectModel System.Collections.Specialized System.ComponentModel.Design

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I majored in math in college, but despite getting straight A's in calculus and analytic geometry, I never felt I quite grasped it. I repeated it at another college one summer and got A's again, but still felt lost. I never did finish differential equations; I dropped out.

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on the top of the article and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

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deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Knowledge's policies and

2204:, and I think it needs to be expanded. I revert a lot of vandalism and once in a while I try to welcome new users, and recently I've started to tag articles for issues like the article not having any references, I'm also trying to help categorize articles. 2308:

prod or AFD it. Conversely, it is humanely impossible for admins to fix all salvageable articles. If you think it deserves a chance, but don't have the time to fix it yourself, delete it but make a note of what needs to be done in the deletion summary.

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The background section was more or less copied from the previous version of the article. The lack of citations is due to inheritance. :D I will try to find some links though. (I myself am in doubt about some claims, especially pertaining to lack of

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but in India, it seemed ancient, solid, and permanent, yet softened by immense compassion everywhere. I found no resentment of the poor, and much personal daily charity. It made me love philanthropy and inclined me to goodness and goodwill.

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He was convicted in Dec 2002 of murding a neighborgood child. He made hamburger patties out of his child victim's meat, then invited his mother and neighbors over for a barbecue. Everyone agreed that the hamburgers "We're the best we ever

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As for the examples, its an excellent suggestion. An examples sections looks out-of-context. I will try reducing the number of samples (and overlap between the functionality they demonstrate) and integrate. But my fingers are too tired

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Your account of your visit is most entertaining and not to say, informative as anything. I didn't know some things myself. I have currently completed my graduation, and am preparing for higher studies. I am in talks with profs at

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I guess I still like the first image best, but let's decide when (hopefully soon) I get a response. BTW, you don't have to copy your replies to my talk page, I have your userpage on my watchlist and I do monitor it. Cheers,

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the topic under its banner. The WikiProject then becomes the main (but not the sole) maintainer of the article. In WikiProject speak, the "project" (with quotes) refer to the mother of all WikiProjects - Knowledge itself.

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are very high quality editors as well but they both are cooling off a bit right now. You yourself probably would be in the front row if a rating were to be made. (And I am sure I am missing a few other prolific editors

2218:, but I understand why they have the article now. If I ended up getting in a conflict again I would ask fellow editors what they think about the situation and then try to reason with the editor I was in a conflict with. 2187:

1. What sysop chores do you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Knowledge backlog and Category:Administrative backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.

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Since you are doing a wonderful job of writing new articles for new MS stuff, may I humbly suggest you create the "Sync Framework" and "Windows Essential Business Server" articles, of course if you have time.

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Thank you. Since it was deleted, I figured that the article was minor. And the group doesn't even have its own website yet, but I'll try to prove notability, etc. before recreating it. Thank you for your help.

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Do you know about any proper website or site within the Mircosoft website where I can find info on when the namespaces were first introduced and also some material about non-.NET fx namespaces? --

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System System.AddIn System.CodeDom System.Collections System.ComponentModel System.Configuration System.Data System.Deployment.Application System.Deployment.Internal System.Diagnostics

3537:? I only have personal experience with a few (System, System.Collections, System.IO, System.Windows.Forms) and haven't (yet) duck deep into the rest. How about the top level ones? Somewhat like: 462:

Can you take a "draft" screenshot so that I know what you want the screenshot to look like? By the way, the blog link that you left on my talk page died... So I don't know about that article. —

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one would look better when cropped and slightly retouched (red eye reduction et al). She is also in a more natural pose in this. The only caveat - the chick in the front is in focus, not her.

1973:- I feel like the examples would really help make the text more understandable if they were integrated with the text, instead of (or inaddition to) being in their own section at the bottom. 1931: