User talk:Dwaipayanc/Archive 18

Happy Holi[edit]

Happy Holi to you too :). Well, after a long hiatus, I am back. See you around. --soum^সৌমোyasch 02:01, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks and wish you the same! --Victor 06:48, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ditto. :-) Idleguy 15:01, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Holi! --Incman|वार्ता 16:43, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Holi to you too Dwaipayanc. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:54, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tintin books links[edit]

These ebooks are not uploaded by me, so whether they still exist in these links, I am not sure. The second last is ALPH ART:

Sorry friend, it seems the links do not work anymore. --Pinaki ghosh 07:11, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll upload my version and send u the link later next week.

PINQ[edit]

Is the question too tough after so many hints? What's the common practice in such cases ... do I reveal the answer or keep giving out more and more hints? --Ragib 15:02, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Holi Greetings[edit]

Happy Holi, my friend! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nikkul (talk • contribs) 15:54, 4 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Greetings[edit]

Greetings to you, too! -- Rmrfstar 03:58, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your support on the Technopark article[edit]

Ajaypp has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!

Thanks for the support and the valuable suggestions that you made. Looking forward for the same to make Technopark a FA. Btw, was nice to find out that you from Calcutta. Spent a couple of years in the City of Joy while I studied at IIM Calcutta. Cheers. Ajaypp 09:28, 5 March 2007 (UTC) ^{(I am here..)} 0[reply]

INCOTW[edit]

You voted for New Delhi, this week's Indian Collaboration of the Week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. - Aksi_great (talk) 14:20, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hullo D,

I am the Indian Banyan, u asked me to join.

A.

re: Welcome[edit]

Hello

Only just noticed the welcome you added to my talk page (dated 21st Feb), just thought I'd say thanks for that ;-) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pahari Sahib (talk • contribs) 07:09, 6 March 2007 (UTC). oops Pahari Sahib 07:11, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uploads.[edit]

How do I create such a page on my wiki ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload

My Image directory is writable.

--IndianBanyan 16:14, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Featured Article Candidate: Ilaiyaraaja[edit]

Dear Swaipayanc: There is a Wikiproject India article that is currently an FAC. Could you please take a look? Thank you, AppleJuggler 04:32, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New Delhi[edit]

Not sure if I'll have the time to put in to get it up to FA status. We'll need Planemad's customised map before it goes on FAC. =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:44, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Portal:India[edit]

Hi,

I was planning to implement that. I was too tired to do it just now as Indian portal has 76 selected articles, which is one mammoth task. Will do it in a day or two. — Ambuj Saxena (☎) 17:57, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Sure[edit]

Will do my best. Waiting for u to join in :)--ppm 21:37, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delhi[edit]

Congrats for getting this to FA. An article on monuments of Delhi would be simply great.Dineshkannambadi 02:16, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Holi![edit]

Happy Holi! I am on the move now and that's how the delay in reciprocating your hearty greetings. I stand now transferred to South Africa from Ranchi, Jharkhand. Within a month or so, I will be joining our to be newly affiliated centre at Durban. A few days I will be off from wikipedia!. Sorry that I would not be able to visit. – VMO 08:52, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the spring greetings and for the Reviewer's award; that was so very kind of you ! Didn't mean to take so long in responding, but I'm still really struggling to catch up after two weeks of travel. Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:30, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Dwaipayan! Sorry for the late message, but I hope you had a happy Holi, too!! --Kuaichik 15:02, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tornado FAC[edit]

Sorry about my recent absence...First, I was waiting to recieve print sources from other libraries (which I now have), secondly, my computer was self-destructing, but I believe I have it in tip-top shape right now. I will start work on the article first thing tomorrow. -Running On Brains 06:45, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi :)[edit]

Hi Dwai(thats only as far as I used to read your name :)),

Yes, I've seen you around on many pages that I frequent. Nice of you to drop by. Happy editing! :) Sarvagnya

Featured!!![edit]

The portal got featured status. Thanks mate for evertything. Will look forward for further collaborations. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 14:09, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No problem — thanks for all your work, too. I look forward to further collaborations as well! :) Happy editing! — S.D. 22:54, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, congratulations to everybody! We'll all keep working on maintenance, so we'll run into each other all over the place :) Happy editing, – riana_dzasta 01:15, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Great work! Regards. - P.K.Niyogi 04:41, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats to u and all for for making West bengak portal featured. Amartyabag ^TALK2ME 07:45, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

History[edit]

What's your thoughts on Bengal history now? I think we have the right ingredients at this point, mostly a matter of summarising.--ppm 20:10, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RU FAC[edit]

Check out Rajshahi University--ppm 20:45, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Satyendranath Tagore[edit]

Satyendranath Tagore has run into some POV problems. I have already modified the text but you are better at it. Please give it a read and correct as you deem fit. Regards. -- P.K.Niyogi 04:41, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the support. I have used all material I had about Gyanadanandini Devi in this article. I would need something more for a separate article. I have not been able to lay hands on Chitra Deb's "Thakurbarir Andarmahal." I believe that it is very well written. May be, a number of Thakurbari women would be worth covering. When you have time, please have a look at Hara Chandra Ghosh. Regards. -- P.K.Niyogi 06:06, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks![edit]

Nice to be back. :) Arundhati bakshi 12:33, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Well Deserved[edit]

Thanks for the medal and Thank you!! :-) - KNM ^Talk 15:23, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Great![edit]

I am overwhelmed by your appreciation. I was feeling a bit tired and overworked, my Internet connection is also giving a lot of trouble and so I was thinking of a short lay off. Now, you have forced me back on rails.

Let me tell you the background for my writing the biographies. I retired in 2002 and that provided me with an opportunity to get to know more about my family. Ours is a big family with a variety of people in the past – some were from East Bengal, others were from Calcutta and West Bengal. There were people who left Bengal and went all over the place – Shimla, UP, Bihar, Orissa. Some had become Christians, others joined the Brahmo Samaj. Then there were dedicated Ramkrishna Mission devotees, one person had even become a monk. In trying to explore why some of them acted in some manner, I had to understand that age – 19th century and early 20th century Bengal. That led me to books of that era and there lay before me the gold mine, some of which I am putting on Wikipedia. That was such a golden era that only a few names made it to the pages of history, others got buried. Just think of how many wonderful writers were dwarfed by the genius of Rabindranath! On their own they were great.

Now on to some of the other questions. Persian was the ‘official’ language of India for about 600 years till well into the British period. Have you ever seen a Bengali court document? It is more Persian than anything else. The Young Bengal group and that generation were the first to learn English formally. H.E.A. Cotton was a barrister, with strong India-links. His book is referred to by most authors dealing with 19th century Bengal. I think I will create stubs about both Cotton and David Kopf, the US historian who has researched on India.

I am grateful about your guiding me on to Wikipedia rules. Most of the time I have been learning from the corrections people make but quite often I am missing the finer points. DYK has helped me a lot to improve my presentation. Satyendranath Tagore has gone through a wonderful series of corrections and the article now is so much better than what I had initially written.

Another good piece of advice has been offered by Jreferee in some of the talk page : The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. I am following the guideline but I have to enforce it more strictly.

Sorry for the exceptionally long message. With regards.

P.K.Niyogi 05:37, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Shame on me[edit]

Thanks for the message about my mistake about Gandhi Bobsodium from wikipedia France202.53.15.226 07:43, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

a little present[edit]

The **Golden Wikiaward** is meant for the hardest-working editor with most distinguished contributions and a forceful positive impact on his/her fellow editors - you're close enough I guess :):) **Rama's arrow** 16:14, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - it is indeed a coincidence that you message me just as I was writing this up for you. I can remember conversing with you one year ago and now - what a massive difference. Congratulations for your brilliant work! Rama's arrow 16:14, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You've got mail. Oh yes, we should prolly see 150 FAs by the end of '07. I am amazed at people like Dinesh and Parthi. They do amazing work :) Rama's arrow 16:36, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All but geo[edit]

Apart from geography, Bengal seems ready, imo. For geo, i'll be using: [1][2][3]. Letting u know, just in case u find time to chip in. And thanks with help with Rajshahi Uni.--ppm 21:02, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks[edit]

Thanks Dwaipayan! Because my workload is cyclical, oftentimes I am not able to contribute, even though I very much want to. I am running into a few months of downtime right now and am looking forward to opportunities where I can working with great contributors such as yourself! AreJay 21:54, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject History of Bangladesh[edit]

WikiProject History of Bangladesh has started. It needs members and participants. Aditya Kabir 03:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Shahbag[edit]

Will you you take a look at the article Shahbag? Ragib thinks it may deserve a FA drive. So, where do we begin? Aditya Kabir 04:21, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Editor review[edit]

You've got new questions at WP:ER.

The Transhumanist 10:25, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Sir Creek[edit]

Geography is a big problem. I got meager data from online references, and the major stumbling block seems to be the area of the creek. What can be done for geography is to extrapolate data from the Rann of Kutch, similar to how it has been done for Nathu La. =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Easy clue[edit]

Well, other than writing down the entire answer, this was the best I could do. I didn't think this would be so hard, considering that pressing CTRL-k at a few cities Ross lived would have shown Uday Shankar, and the Narail connection would be very clear. --Ragib 18:17, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I actually meant Alt-j, or Alt-shift-j, in other words, "What links here". :) --Ragib 18:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks. So, did you listen to the whole thing? ;) --Ragib 05:04, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ha ha, you do have patience.

About Banglapedia, it's a great effort, but I now have doubts about it's infallibility. The credentials of some editors are questionable. The editors were paid quite a lot of money (paid per word!!), but in some cases, they turned up huge POV. There was a recent series of writing in Bangladeshi media, about the horrible POV against tribals in Banglapedia. Check for "Wrong info on ethnic groups in Banglapedia" in The New Age.

I've heard from various sources that they are now pissed off with Wikipedia, which they think is copying content from bpedia. While some newbies do exactly that, I've reverted that on sight.

Too bad they are taking this hostile attitude. I did try contacting them a year ago, but got no replies. Apparently, they have a 6 crore taka budget for verson 2.0, and don't like to see a free rival like en or bn wikipedia steal their thunder ;) --Ragib 05:16, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So many matters[edit]

Deshapran Sasmal was a barrister who took up freedom fighters’ cases. He defended the accused in the Chittagong Armoury Raid. I think it would be a good idea to attempt to lift Jagadish Chandra Bose to FA category. I don’t seem to have much print reference but the basics are there with me. Moreover, I will now look out for more references. This exercise would give me an FA exposure. I have improved some pages like Chandramukhi Basu and Abala Bose but these still need attention. The transfers from Ganesbot sand box is complete for entire eastern India – Orisaa , Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram. I have also been working on the Bardhaman district towns. I have added basic material and destubbed all the pages. I had collected reference maaterial for the district. Now, I will be looking out for one or two more districts - maybe, Birbhum and Bankura. Regards. -- P.K.Niyogi 02:59, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sigh!! Only if I could lure you guys to Bengali wikipedia!! --Ragib 03:05, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delhi copy edit[edit]

Hi Dwaipayan, Thanks for your post on my talk page and sorry for the delay in replying. I just wanted to say that my copy-editing of Delhi will not be very "linear" and you might find me leapfrogging between sections, but I will get to all the sections (as and when I find time). I don't always know all the terms, so please feel to correct my copy edits. Also, I had a minor question about the education section. It says something about the language of instruction in private schools, but doesn't mention it for nonprivate schools. Could you add a sentence about that? BTW, I just noticed that in one of my edit summaries I wrote, "stupid." When I wrote that, I was expressing frustration at myself for making a careless mistake, not commenting on the article! Thanks again. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 10:46, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

HELP[edit]

Dear Dwaipayan, plz help me with the Chokher Bali article. Some users are claiming that "Chokher bali" means someone u luv, while it is my contention that it means someone u hate. Which is it? pLease leave your comments on the article discussion page. --WoodElf 15:15, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks[edit]

A big round of thanks for all your help and support on getting Technopark, Kerala promoted to FA status! --Ajaypp 19:41, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I have Western Chalukyas in peer review. I will push it for FAC this weekend.Just letting it run the courseDineshkannambadi 22:21, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

HP: FAC[edit]

I would be nominating the page on 25th of May. The article himachal pradesh needs to be improved a lot. You know I have already prepared the draft. The only thing is to copy and paste it. That I'll do on 25th may. Thanks Sushant gupta 06:29, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

yes i know that it lacks citation. that is the thing i have left it for 24th may. don't disclose it anymore please. i beg you. it took more than 9 days to prepare that and i don't want anyone to copy it on the main article. i want to do this work. please Sushant gupta 06:48, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

no you are not kidding because the content is now classed as GFDL and anyone can edit it make changes on the page and even copy it. what i want is that i should paste the content i wrote. others want to do changes in it thats fine.

If you want more info about gfdl scroll down and follow the link. i have read it completely. Thanks Sushant gupta 06:58, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jagadish Chandra Bose[edit]

I think Jagadish Chandra Bose is shaping up well. I have given it a cursory glance only. I feel that there are too many external links. May be, some of the information can be incorporated in the article and the external links utilised as references. Regards. -- P.K.Niyogi 04:57, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Education in Bangladesh, please, help[edit]

I have started working on the article Education in Bangladesh. It was in an extremely bad shape. The last few edits were turning it into a motley hotchpotch of text, link and image for private university/English medium agenda-pushers. Even without that the article had little content. I have began by putting in an enormous amount of fresh text, and even more massive amount of resource links (Banglapedia, government sites and downloadable pdf links). Now the real work should begin. Would you lend a hand in this? I can't do it alone. Do you have anyone else in mind who might help? That person doesn't need to be Bangladeshi. Aditya Kabir 18:06, 17 March 2007 (UTC) - please, answer to my talk page[reply]

Thanks. Aditya Kabir 19:03, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try[edit]

Hi, you are right about my inactivity. Throughout the last month I couldn't get enough internet access. It may sound strange to you but as I connect with the internet by mobile phone, I was unable to enter without it. Anyway I understand the importance of the article and would continue my try. It would be really great if you come out with help. Thanks and congrates if you are a Bangladesh fan. -Tarif from Bangladesh 11:14, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tintin And Alph Art[edit]

Hi,

Here is the download link to the book Tintin And The Alph Art: [5]

or, paste this on your address bar: http://www.4shared.com/file/12470310/382382dc/24_-_tintin_and_the_alphart.html

Hope you are fine.

Pinaki