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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 Atheros India L.L.C. Atheros finds mention in the 'pedia here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (even has a link!), 7, 8 (even has a link!), 9.
 | This Wikipedian is a citizen of the Republic of India. |
| This user lives in India. |
My Supposed 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)
- 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.
| ta-1 | இந்தப் பயனாளர் தமிழில் அடிப்படையான அளவில் பங்களித்து உதவமுடியும். |
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: z{{user en-N}} (near-native) {{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]) are usually due to this.
- 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).
- Wow! My pickupis 1 to 1000 (including all namespaces) 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 (including all namespaces) in 36462300 s, or 422 days and 25 minutes (02:29, 17 Jan 2006 - 02:04, 21 Nov 2004) -- I have become less lazy.
- Wow! My
- I suffer from copyright paranoia w.r.t. contributions from myself (which's why I've contributed almost nothing to the 'pedia).
- History of dubious behaviour:
- Found by myself:
- ta:பேச்சு:முதற் பக்கம் (Feb. 2004)
- Talk:Avatar (Feb. 2004)
- b:Talk:Programming:C plus plus, b:Talk:Programming: C -/- -/-, b:User talk:Panic2k4, b:Wikibooks:Staff lounge, etc. (Nov. 2004)
- MediaZilla:955, MediaZilla:971 and m:Template:H:interwiki linking (Nov.-Dec. 2004)
- Found by others:
- Wikipedia talk:Images and media for deletion and User talk:Quadell (Mar. 2005) (too much criticism)
- Any more? Feel free to report in my talk page and I'll add here.
- Found by myself:
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)?
- Various anonymous contributions from work to w:, m:?, hi:
- hi:User:पद्दू
- Various anonymous contributions from 210.214.*/work/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 work 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
Note that I'm not en:User:Paddy or de:Benutzer:Paddy or commons:User:Paddy.
See User:Arvindn/Chess.
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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.