User:Paddu

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I'm Padmanabhan V. Karthic (b.1982). I finished my Masters in Computer science and Engineering from IIT Madras. I am currently working at Qualcomm India Private Limited.

This Wikipedian is a citizen of the Republic of India.

This user lives in India.

This user has never left the Northern Hemisphere.

This user's time zone is UTC+5:30.

My Supposed To-dos/Interests

Articles related to:

India
Carnatic music
Hindu mythology
cricket (sport)
Physics??
Computers????
Other things to be added later

(? = most of what I know seems to already be there)

This editor is a WikiGnome.

I seem to like contributing to articles related to current events at times.
At times I nominate stuff for deletion (mostly images to WP:CP, but at times I've been to WP:IFD and WP:RFD) but I am opposed to being oblivious of Wikipedia policy changes while deleting stuff. For example, one has to consider that until the midst of 2004 image tagging wasn't strictly enforced, so images uploaded earlier must only be deleted on proven copyvios.

en-4

This user can contribute with a near-native level of English.

LE-1

This user's been known to screw up the occasional sentence and make the occasional typo, but is otherwise pretty accurate with regards to English.

hi-2

इस उपयोगकर्ता को हिन्दी भाषा का मध्यम स्तर का ज्ञान है।

ta-1

இந்தப் பயனாளர் தமிழில் அடிப்படையான அளவில் பங்களித்து உதவமுடியும்.

ta-N

This user is a native speaker of Tamil.

Yeah, that's right. I'm {{user ta-N}} but far less than {{user ta-1}}. Also, I learnt enough Hindi to become {{user hi-3}} but I'm not confident I'm still so. I also learnt enough German and Sanskrit to become {{user de-1}} and {{user sa-1}} but again I remember nearly nothing.

I feel what's important for the English Wikipedia is the ability to translate "xx2en", not "en2xx". For that I can be considered: {{user en-4}} {{user hi-3}} {{user ta-0}} and with the help of dictionaries and online translation tools and in my copious free time, {{user de-1}} {{user sa-1}}.

Drawbacks :-)

My grammar/spelling/vocab seem to have degraded a lot since 1999.
I've been alleged to say things are OBVIOUS though they are not.
Mozilla at times doesn't shift the "keyboard focus" to the tab currently being viewed. "Minor graffiti" by me (e.g. [1]) used to be due to this. Nowadays they (e.g. [2], [3], [4], [5]) are usually because I haven't got fully accustomed to the recent defects in my keyboard at home.
I forget to sign comments quite frequently.
I'm tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo lazy (which's why I haven't filed or bothered to find if already filed, the above moz bug & which's why I've contributed almost nothing to the 'pedia).
I suffer from copyright paranoia w.r.t. contributions from myself (which's why I've contributed almost nothing to the 'pedia).

Milestones in spite of laziness

All namespaces (all times in IST):

Wow! My
pickup
is 1 to 1000 in 58436400 s, or 676 days 8 hours and 20 minutes (02:04, 21 Nov 2004 - 17:44, 14 Jan 2003). Anyone lazier than that?
From 1000 I reached 2000 in 36462300 s, or 422 days and 25 minutes (02:29, 17 Jan 2006 - 02:04, 21 Nov 2004) -- I have become less lazy.
From 2000 I reached 3000 in 11750160 s, or and 135 days 23 hours and 56 minutes (02:25, 2 June 2006 - 02:29, 17 Jan 2006) -- have I got disconnected with real life?
From 3000 I reached 4000 by shamelessly editing this page at 03:55, 20 May 2007 -- in 30418200 s, or 352 days 1 hour and 30 minutes (03:55, 20 May 2007 - 02:25, 2 June 2006).

Main namespace:

I went from 1 to 1000 in 98928300 s, or 1145 days and 5 minutes (17:49, 4 March 2006 - 17:44, 14 January 2003). Anyone lazier than that?
I reached 2000 in 39299220 s, or 454 days 20 hours and 27 minutes (14:16, 2 June 2007 - 17:49, 4 March 2006) -- I have become less lazy.

History of dubious behaviour

Found by myself:
1. ta:பேச்சு:முதற் பக்கம் (Feb. 2004)
2. Talk:Avatar (Feb. 2004)
3. b:Talk:Programming:C plus plus, b:Talk:Programming: C -/- -/-, b:User talk:Panic2k4, b:Wikibooks:Staff lounge, etc. (Nov. 2004)
4. MediaZilla:955, MediaZilla:971 and m:Template:H:interwiki linking (Nov.-Dec. 2004)
5. Wikipedia:WikiProject Turkey [6] and User talk:Metb82 [7] (May 2006) (ranting without trying to understand)
6. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bridges and Category:Bridge disasters
Found by others:
1. Wikipedia talk:Images and media for deletion and User talk:Quadell (Mar. 2005) (too much criticism)
2. Talk:Calgary, Alberta/Archive 1#Move from Calgary, Alberta to Calgary (Apr. 2005) (page move without discussion)
3. Economy of Turkey [8] and Talk:Economy of Turkey [9] (May 2006) (removal of table)
4. Any more? Feel free to report in my talk page and I'll add here.
Couldn't be bothered right now to search history and link exactly the versions that I've "invaded", might (or might not) create proper links here in future.

Inappropriate image uploads

Image:Main-Page-netscape4.79-redhat-linux-7.3-paddu.png -- (image links, text links)
Any more? Please report in my talk page and I'll add here.

Other Wikimedia Contributions (However Negligible)

Some of User:202.141.24.2 & other proxies in IIT Madras
en:User:Paddu
m:User:Paddu
Some of 210.214.*
Some of wikt:User:202.141.24.2 & (other proxies in IIT Madras)?
b:User:Paddu
Some of ta:User:202.141.24.2 & (other proxies in IIT Madras)?
Some of hi:User:202.141.24.2 & (other proxies in IIT Madras)?
Some of User:203.195.246.162
Some of m:User:203.195.246.162
Some of hi:User:203.195.246.162
hi:User:पद्दू
Various anonymous contributions from 210.214.*/203.195.246.162/210.18.189.95 to other Indian languages
Some of m:User:210.18.189.95
Some of User:210.18.189.95
Some of test:User:210.18.189.95
Various anonymous contributions from 203.195.246.162 to test:?
MediaZilla:817
test:User:Paddu
Some of de:User:210.18.189.95
Some of b:de:User:210.18.189.95
Some of commons:User:210.18.189.95
commons:User:Paddu
Some of n:User:210.18.189.95
Some of tr:User:210.18.189.95
Some of d:User:123.201.138.145

Note that I'm not en:User:Paddy or de:Benutzer:Paddy or commons:User:Paddy.

Subpages

/sandbox
/chess image — See User:Arvindn/Chess.
/wowturkey.com photo — See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Turkey#Photos from wowturkey.com and User talk:A.Garnet#wowturkey.com.

Geek Code

-----BEGIN Paddu's GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12
G^* d+(?) s:++ a-- C++(+++) UL++(++++) P+>++++ L+++(++)>++++ E- W+(++) N(+) !o
K? w--(---) !O M@ V? PS+() PE+() Y+ PGP- t? 5? X? R tv-(+) b+@ DI+ D+@ G>++ e+++
h!(*) !r y?
------END Paddu's GEEK CODE BLOCK------

^* My occupation is not CS as such but CS&E. But GE/CS makes it look like I'm talented in multiple fields. So it should actually be G! with a very little bit of GE and GCS thrown in. Also I'm not a gamer, just happened to play a few long ago, but this isn't apparent from the code.